Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Pennsylvania Railroad is a big game, with a three panel mapboard, and it has the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Pennsylvania Railroad is a big game, with a three panel mapboard, and it has the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The map stretches from Maine to Virginia, Missouri to Canada. The game is for 3 to 6 players and takes about 2 hours to play. There is no luck, just hard driving economic warfare between the competing railroads. Railroad sell shares, build track, develop logging camps, mines & communities and pay out dividends to their shareholders. At the end of the game, the player with the most money wins. —description from the publisher