Station Master

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Your display name

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You become the host — you choose the mode and, once everyone's seated, start the game. 2 to 4 players.

Competitive
Highest Revenue wins, unless the table misses the combined minimum — then everyone loses.

Co-op
Everyone's Revenue counts as one table score, against the same kind of combined minimum.

Players at the table

Game settings

The same dials the solitaire New Game dialog has. Picking a mode or a table size sets them to that game's defaults; every one stays yours to change. They are fixed when the game is created and cannot be changed once it starts.

Seed

The same seed and the same settings always deal the same railroad, so a game can be shared, compared or replayed. Leave it blank for a random one.

Starting hand

What each player is dealt before the first turn. The hand limit is three either way — deal six and the first turn is spent choosing which of them to keep.

Three random cards Six random cards Three track and three other

Revenue

What each piece of work pays, 0 to 5. Zero switches an economy off so the others can be read.

Passenger revenue per coach Freight revenue per load Train revenue per transit

Victory conditions

How long the game runs, and the ways it can end. 0 turns any of these off. The combined-Revenue default is sized for the table you chose above.

Days Minimum combined Revenue to avoid a loss Collisions in one Day that end the game Collisions across the whole game that end it Allow the opponent-directed cards

Not yet built (TODO.md) — this has no effect either way until then.

Optional rules

Appendix B. Off by default; each one changes how the game plays.

Reduced Visibility — five switching Moves instead of six in the night Stages (1–3 and 11–12) Employee Rotation — at the end of each Day everyone moves one chair left and takes over the next station up the line. Your Revenue and the Fedora go with you; the district stays where it is Emergency Toolbox — everyone starts holding a Red Flag, so a hand of four; play or discard down to three on the first turn

Every chair has to be taken before the game can start — by a person or by a bot. Pick the size of the table now; it cannot change once the game is created.

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Game code

The Division — west to east

Your Office Area — hover any card for the full explanation

A district only ever grows outwards. On the Running Track the Limits signs are the growth point — lay a card on a sign and the sign moves one further out; nothing may be built beyond it. Everywhere else a card needs an empty square that its rails reach. No card is ever inserted between two cards already down, so nothing you have built is pushed along by something laid later.

History

Your Move

Cards Available

Cards in My Hand

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Department Decks & Salvage Yard — top card face up, with depth

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The Yards

Division Yard

Classification Yard

Timetable — who is due out, and when

Train due this Stage already gone just rolled

A train's number is its seniority and direction — odd runs west, even runs east. The Stage it departs is set by a 1D12 roll when its card is played, and it then runs at that time every Day.

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Create a new game

Seed

Starting hand

Revenue

Victory conditions

Optional rules

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Seating

The Division — west to east

Your Office Area — hover any card for the full explanation

History

Your Move

Cards Available

Cards in My Hand

Department Decks & Salvage Yard — top card face up, with depth

The Yards

Division Yard

Classification Yard

Timetable — who is due out, and when

Blocked — why nothing is moving

Facilities

New game

Game type

Seed

Starting hand

Where an Extra may start

Revenue

Victory conditions

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Create or join a game

Create a new game

Seed

Starting hand

Revenue

Victory conditions

Optional rules

Join a game

Seating

The Division — west to east

Your Office Area — hover any card for the full explanation auto-hide: on

History

Your Move

Cards Available

Cards in My Hand

Department Decks & Salvage Yard — top card face up, with depth

The Yards

Division Yard

Classification Yard

Timetable — who is due out, and when

Blocked — why nothing is moving

Facilities

Your Office Area — hover any card for the full explanation