Introduction

Crayon rails is the generic term for a series of board games published by Mayfair Games which recreate the building of railroads via the use of crayons (or in some cases non-permanent marker pens) on a reusable wipe clean board. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the US and UK. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ...

Game Features

The board consists of an area of the world depicted using a series of dots (called mileposts) in a triangular grid pattern. Different shapes are used to differentiate between types of terrain (e.g. clear, forest, mountain etc.). Also on the board are major and minor towns. A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set aside for hunting). ... Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ...

Players start the game with a train, some money, and 3 delivery cards. There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ... Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, or a unit of account. ...

The aim of the game is to make the most money, whilst connecting up a certain number of major towns. Players make money by performing the deliveries on their cards.

Each delivery card has three deliveries on it to choose from. A player can only do one delivery from each card. A delivery involves moving a certain type of good (e.g. coal, wood, pilgrims ) from a town which supplies it to the town named on the card. For this the player would earn an amount of money stated on the card. Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. ... A news/talk radio station on the frequency of 1300 AM in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ... This article is about the colonists of North America. ...

Players build railroads on the board by drawing lines connecting up the dots. Railroads must connect to existing track, or to a major town. The railroad is purchased from the players cash with the cost depending on the number of new mileposts connected and their type. Players may cross but not run alongside another players track.

Players then run a train (represented by a pawn) along their track. The trains can move a certain number of mileposts depending on their type. See: Pawn (chess) for the piece used in the board game chess. ...

At any point during the train move, when the train moves through a town the train may pick up any loads supplied by the town (you can pick up loads for which you have no deliveries), or if a train has a delivery to that town with the appropriate load on board, it can deliver the good and the player gets their money.

A player's turn consists of moving their train, then building any track (up to a certain spend per turn).

List of Titles in the Series

Empire Builder - Set in the USA Empire Builder is a train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States. ...

British Rails

Eurorails

Nippon Rails - Set in Japan

North American Rails - Revised version of Empire Builder

Australia Rails

Iron Dragon - Set in a Fantasy Land

India Rails

Lunar Rails

Russian Rails

External Links

Boardgamegeek

Computerized version of Iron Dragon

Crayon Rail Fanatics has a shareware computer version, strategy tips, free replacement components, and more.

See also

Railway Rivals Railway Rivals is a railway development-themed board game designed by Glynn and David Watts and popularised by Games Workshop in 1985. ...