Railroad Empire is a game of acquisition of the railroads of the early 20th
century.  There are 32 railroad companies in business as the game starts.  It
is up to the players to purchase as many of these as possible in order to
consolidate them under the player's own Railroad Holding company.  To generate
money each player moves his trains from shipping center to delivery point and
is paid a fee for doing so.  He then takes this money and any part of his
initial money and purchases railroad companies.  Railroad companies pay divi-
dends to their owner.  The goal of the game is to accumulate $200,000,000 from
fees and dividends.  If no one reaches the winning amount by the final day (999)
then the player with the most money at that time wins.

At the start each player is assigned a 'home' city.  At a player's home city
will be one freight train ready for the player to schedule shipments and to
move.

Each player has an initial investment of $20 million with which he can purchase
railroads or new trains.  Up to 90% of this money can be spent on capital
purchases, the rest must be used as 'working' capital in order to pay bills.

And bills there will be.  Each time a train is switched onto a railroad
company's private lines a player must pay a switching fee.  This is $400,000
if the rails are not owned by another player.  In addition every 12 spaces of
movement costs $100,000 in use fees/expenses.

It is extremely important for a new player to learn the railroad routes.
These are the paths the railroads travel from city to city.  The most direct
route being the fastest, but it may not be the cheapest.

The Screen you will see is a portion of the map of the USA and Southern Canada.
Cities are described as grey boxes with black sides. Mountains are described by
brown, ochre and dark areas. Flat country is represented by green areas.  Blue
areas are bodies of water. The cities are connected by colored lines. These are
the rail lines.  Enter command of numbers 1-4 to be shown different regions of
the country.

The game options are seleted by entering a command in the control window.
If you need help in choosing an option press "H" for help.  Most options have
a display menu which pops up.  The most important option is the "T" option.
This enters into the Train subsystem.  Within this option there are several
sub-options.  There is a seperate help within this option.  Quit will exit the
Train subsystem to the main menu or will exit to the BBS.

In order to facilitate proper play the file RRXICONS.zip must be downloaded and
the icons therein put into the ICONS subdirectory of your communications
directory.

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