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- Lou's Game Corner: Railroad Game Links - A collection of links to various Railroad games, especially the 18xx series, Rail Baron, and the crayon-type railroad games such as Empire Builder and Railway Rivals.
- Railroad Gamer - Newsletter covering railroad games (with archives) that provide tips on game levels.
- The GLG Railroad Games Support - A collection of material that supports the world of Railroad gaming.
- Railroads and Miners: A Variant for Silverton - Subtitled: Railroad Ownership of Mines Considered Harmful
- Silverton - Review by Mike Siggins. "It is highly playable, has all the railway game flavour you could ask for and is a reasonably challenging game with some neat systems."
- Public-Locking Rules for Crayon Rail Games - Use these variant rules to make all of the Empire Builder series games more competitive and less dependent on luck.
- Crayon Rails Deck Generator - Interactive site by Don Woods lets users create new, random decks for several of the most popular games in the Empire Builder series. In addition, offers comprehensive "Payoff Charts" detailing payoffs for all of the significant existing game decks.
- Andy's 18xx Page - Links and chronologies of some PBEM games.
- Blackwater Station - Information on amateur, gamekits, and commercially available games. Features reviews, news, beginner's guide, and overview of existing games.
- Minstrel HT - 18xx games - supplement to the paper based Minstrel and links into the UK postal gaming hobby
Wikipedia Articles
- Economic simulation game - Economic simulation games are games that simulate a real-world, historical, or hypothetical economy. Most city-building games, like SimCity, are specialized economic simulator games as well as most Tycoon games, like Railroad Tycoon and Pizza Tycoon.
- List of 18XX games - This list contains games in the 18XX style: those which recreate the building of railroad corporations during the 19th century, or games which use very similar mechanics to those games.
- 18XX - 18XX is the generic term for a series of board games which, with a few exceptions, recreate the building of railroad corporations during the 19th century; individual games within the series use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the world they cover). The games 2038, set in the future, and Ur, 1830 ...
- Transport games - Transport games are a subcategory of simulation games in which a player designs, builds, runs, and maintains a transportation network. One of the first series in this genre is Railroad Tycoon.
- MacSoft Games - MacSoft Games is a Minnesota, United States-based computer game publisher and porter specializing in porting Microsoft Windows computer games to the Macintosh. Among its releases are Civilization II, Master of Orion II, Railroad Tycoon, Quake, Lode Runner 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Rainbow Six, Neverwinter Nights (including Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide and Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark), and ...