1. Place the game board in the middle of the table.
2. Place the 100/200 and 300/400-point tokens near the space 100 of the scoring track.
3. Lay the 5 -cards face up.
4. Shuffle the 10 End Bonus cards and remove two of them from the game without looking at them. The 8 remaining cards form a face down pile.
5. Place the 37 locomotives next to the board so that they are locomotive side up (the purple side will come up later). Sort them by number and place them so that they form 9 distinct piles as seen below. One of the #9 locomotives has no purple backside and should be placed on its matching -card.
6. Place the 2 turquoise workers on the area of the board displaying 2 turquoise workers.
   Place the black worker on its matching -card.
   Give each player 7 of the workers in their player color (1 worker of each color is returned to the box).
7. Form a supply with the 18 roubles (coins).
8. Form a Doubler token supply using the 20 Doubler tokens (called 'doubler' for the remainder of this rulebook).
9. Form a track supply by sorting the 48 tracks so that they are grouped by color.
10. First sort the 15engineers into a A and B pile. (One engineer is not marked with a letter and should be placed on its matching -card along with a single rouble.
    Shuffle the A and B piles separately. Place the top 4 engineers of the B stack on the spaces marked 6, 5, 4 and 3. Place the top 3 engineers of the A stack on the spaces marked 2, 1 and the rouble.
    Engineers placed horizontally should be light side up. Engineers placed vertically should be dark side up. (The engineers and the spaces they occupy have a distinctive form to help remind players which side should face up.)
    Remove the remaining engineers from the game.

    Note: The smallest visible number at the spaces for engineers indicate the number of rounds still to be played.

11. The Last Round marker is placed near the game board. It will be required for the last round of the game.

1. Each player selects a color and places the matching player board in front of herself.
2. Each player receives a #1 locomotive from the supply and places it on the appropriate space at the upper left of her player board.
3. Each player receives 3 black tracks from the supply and places them on the first space of each of the three railroads pictured on her player board.
4. Each player receives 5 workers in her color and places them before her. The remaining 2 workers are placed near the game board in a supply.
5. Each player receives 1 rouble from the supply.
6. Each player receives 1 industry marker and places it on space 0 of the industry track.
7. Each player receives 7 different tokens, a second industry marker, 1 Kiev Medal and 1 Revaluation token. She places everything near her player board.
8. Shuffle the 4 Turn Order Cards and place one number-side-up in front of each player.
9. Each player receives 2 pawns in her color: one to place on the 100 space of the scoring track; another to place on the space of the turn order track matching her Turn Order card.
10. Lay out the 4 Starting Bonus cards. The player 4th in turn order takes one, uses its ability and removes it from the game. The player 3rd in turn order does the same, followed by the player 2nd in turn order. The player 1st in turn order receives no Starting Bonus card.
    The remaining Starting Bonus card is returned to the box.
11. Each player receives a Scoring Overview card.

The players take actions one after the other in order, until all players have passed. At the end of each round, players score points as a measurement of their progress.
In the four-player game, the game ends after the seventh round.

Playing a turn

Each turn a player will choose an unoccupied action space, occupy it with the required number of workers and perform that action.

You must consider the following:

• You must choose an unoccupied action space (i.e. one that is not already occupied by workers).
• You must place the correct number of workers required for the action space you wish to use.
• You must only use workers from your personal worker supply.
• You must immediately make use of the chosen action
• You must perform the action in its entirety.
• You may perform only one action per turn.

Note: exceptions to these rules will be noted where applicable.

Note: We use the word “must” to ensure players clearly understand how the game is to be played. There are only positive actions. In most cases, a player will only take an action they want to perform.

The track extension actions are among the most important in the game

Each player’s personal player board depicts 3 railroads, which can be independently extended over the course of the game. These railroads will be called Trans-Siberian railroad, Petersburg railroad and Kiev railroad for the remainder of this rulebook.

The better each of their railroads is developed, the more points each player will score at the end of each round.

First, place the required number of workers on one of the track extension action spaces. Then, advance the appropriate track(s) on your player board the number of spaces indicated on the action space.

You may choose to distribute track advancements between multiple railroads.

And so ends the action.

In order to earn more points, the players should strive to extend their railroads through the advancement of these tracks. To maximize their progress, players will also need to advance tracks of other colors, indicating tracks of higher value.

In order to advance the tracks in the other colors, you must first earn them. Your earn these tracks by advancing the black track to spaces 2, 6, 10 and 15 on the Trans-Siberian.

Once a player has advanced the black track to or beyond space 2 of the Trans-Siberian, she immediately takes 3 gray tracks from the general supply. She places these new tracks to the left of each railroad depicted on her player board. She may now begin advancing her gray tracks. When a player’s black track reaches or passes space 6 of the Trans-Siberian, the player receives 3 brown tracks, space 10 grants access to 2 natural tracks and space 15 to 1 white track.

The two actions at the bottom of the area of rail extension

To use this action, you must place a worker and 1 rouble. This action gives you two advancements of your choice (split between 1 or 2 tracks).

This is the only action in the game that may be used more than once during a round. When a player places a worker there, she must then move either a black or a gray track. The action space is not considered occupied and may be used again during the same round by any player (including players who have already used it).

Another type of action is possible: industrialization. Industrialization lets you score points during the scoring phase at the end of a round, and also gives you access to the abilities of your factories.

First, place the required number of workers on one of the industrialization action spaces. Then, advance your Industry marker the number of spaces indicated by the chosen action space. You will notice that there is a gap after the first 4 spaces of your industry track. You cannot move your Industry marker into or beyond this gap.

For your Industry marker to progress on your industry track, you must first fill these gaps with factories. This represents another way in which your industries are improving. Each factory features an industry space onto which your Industry marker can move. After each factory there is another industry space that becomes available.

When a marker moves onto a factory, you must then immediately use that factory’s ability. If you are unable to use it at that time, the effect is cancelled.

The various abilities are explained here.

• 1 Doubler
  Place 1 worker on this action space to take 1 doubler from the supply. Then, you must place this doubler on an empty dashed space above the Trans-Siberian (and only there). You must fill these 8 spaces from left to right and there may only be 1 doubler per space. A track does not have to be present for you to be able to place a doubler. A doubler multiplies by 2 (doubles) the value of the space below it during scoring.
• 2 Roubles
  Place 1 worker on this action space to take 2 roubles from the supply and then place them in front of you. Roubles may replace workers when playing on action spaces. Although roubles can replace workers, workers cannot replace roubles. Like action spaces occupied by one or more workers, an action space that is occupied by a rouble cannot be used again during this round.
• 2 temporary workers
  Place 1 worker on this action space to take the 2 turquoise temporary workers. You must use these workers during this round, and they act as if they were your own color. Just like roubles, you can use temporary workers by themselves (individually or together), or combine them with workers of your own color or roubles. You may not keep the temporary workers for the next round.

Hiring engineers

Engineers can help players during the game with their special skills. They can also give players a certain number of points at the end of the game. Each round, only one engineer can be hired. The engineer that can be hired is located in the right-most space (the hiring space) of the engineer area of the game board. To hire an engineer, you must place a rouble on the hiring action space. You then take the engineer from this space and place it, light side up, close to your player board.

The light side of each engineer shows an action. If a player has one or more engineers next to his game board, he may use these actions just like those from the game board. A player may use his engineer actions, even if he is unable to use the action completely. Another advantage to having “your own engineers” is that they are not “time sensitive”, meaning that since the other players do not have access to them, you are able to use them exactly when you need to.

The 2 light side up engineers on the game board

Both engineers that are placed light side up on the board allow players to use their respective action. Players are unable to hire these engineers. They represent extra action spaces available to all players, just like all other action spaces on the game board (track extension, locomotive, etc.). And just like all other action spaces on the board, these actions can only be used once per round.

The 4 left-most engineers

These engineers can neither be used nor hired. However, at the end of a round, every engineer is moved one space to the right. In other words, these engineers will become available during future rounds. Seeing them lets players plan ahead for the rounds to come.

In this game, players do not play in clockwise order. The turn order track is used to determine player order. The player occupying the first position plays first, followed by the player occupying the second position, and so forth. Once the last player has taken her turn, it is once again the first player’s turn to play.

When a player does not wish to or cannot continue playing, she passes; this means that for the remainder of this round, she will not be able to play. Finally, to show that she is out of this round, she flips her Turn Order card and immediately scores the points shown on the back of her card.

The other players keep playing, one after the other, until every player has passed.

Note: Even if a player runs out of workers, this does not mean that she must pass right away. She can continue performing actions with roubles.

You can place one of your workers under the first or second position of the turn order track. This will be your position in the turn order sequence of the following round. You may not place a worker on the action space under your current position in the turn order, nor may you occupy both turn order action spaces.

Special case: If the first player places a worker on the 2nd position (probably because she does not wish to move further back) and that no other player places a worker on the 1st position, the turn order will not change. The player still replaces her worker.

A worker on a turn order action space provides another benefit. Once the turn order has been reorganized, players who placed a worker on the turn order action spaces can each move their worker to a free action space. The player whose worker occupies the 2nd position is first to move her worker. She takes her worker from the turn order action space and moves it to a free action space of her choice (this can be one of her engineers). She then performs the corresponding action. Then, the player who placed his worker on the 1st space does the same, following the same rules.

• On spaces, 2, 6 and 10 of the Trans-Siberian, you get the tracks depicted below each space, as explained in section building tracks. Space 15 allows you to get the white track. On top of that, you can immediately advance it up to 2 spaces. You must follow the usual rules (only on empty spaces, no passing), otherwise you lose the advancement(s) you cannot use.
• When you reach the last space of a railroad with the black track,you immediately score 10 points. A railroad may not be extended beyond the last illustrated space.
• If you reach space 7 of the Kiev railroad with your black track, you immediately receive one worker of your color from the general supply. You may use this worker immediately and for the rest of the game.

• If you reach space 3 of the Trans-Siberian with your brown track and a locomotive, you immediately receive one worker of your color from the general supply. You may use this worker immediately and for the rest of the game
• If you reach space 7 of the St.Petersburg railroad with your gray track and a locomotive, the value of every scored space of this railroad is doubled during the scoring phase.
• If you reach spaces 1 through 4 or space 8 of the Kiev railroad with your black track and a locomotive, you score the points depicted in the stars during future scoring phases. These points are cumulative. For example, if your track is on space 3 and you have a #3 locomotive (at least), in each future scoring you will score 6 bonus points (1+2+3 points).
• If you reach space 13 of the Trans-Siberian, or spaces 4 or 6 of the St.Petersburg railroad with your black track and a locomotive, you choose one of your 7 tokens, apply its effect and then place that token in the dashed space with a . This space may not be used again to receive another token.

To receive this advantage, your Industry marker must reach this space on the industry track. (There is no track or locomotive requirement for this space.) You then proceed as described above for the spaces. This space may not be used again to receive another token.

At the end of each round, once every player has passed and the turn order has been reorganized, the scoring phase happens. These two elements on each player’s individual boards are scored:

• their 3 railroads
• their industrialization progress

Scoring the 3 railroads

• In principle, only spaces reached by a locomotive are scored.
• Each track on a railroad can score points. The value of each track is determined by its color, as shown in the upper right corner of the board.
• A track scores points for the space it occupies and all empty spaces behind it. These empty spaces count as being occupied by tracks of the same color (=virtual tracks).

Scoring the industrialization

In addition to your tracks, you also score the points noted on the space on the industry track currently occupied by your Industry marker. Spaces that do not show any points (for example, the factories) are worth the same amount of points as the first previous space worth points.

Once all players are done with their scoring, they must prepare the next round. To be ready for the next round:

• All players must return their workers to their personal supply.
• All placed roubles are returned back in the general supply.
• Both turquoise workers are returned to the corresponding action space.
• One player moves the engineers.
  All engineers are moved 1 space to the right. If there is still an engineer on the hiring space, that engineer is returned to the box. Engineers must always be light side up on the changing action spaces, otherwise they should be dark side up. You will need to flip some engineers when you move them from one section to the next.
  Note: Each space under an engineer shows a number. This is the number of rounds left to play.
• Finally, each player takes the Turn Order card corresponding to her new position in the turn order. That card is placed number-side-up in front of them.

You are now ready for the next round!

Warning! This applies only for the last round:At the beginning of the last round (round 7 with 4 players), the Last Round marker is placed over the turn order action spaces. During the last round, these actions are useless; this is why they are replaced with a new action: 3 advancements on the industry track.

After the scoring phase at the end of round 7, a final scoring takes place, and then the game is over. The final scoring consists of 2 parts:

• End Bonus cards

  Players reveal their End Bonus cards at this time.

  Note: Usually, each player will end the game with one End Bonus card. However, it is possible, with the help of factories, to acquire more End Bonus cards. It is even possible for a player to end the game without any End Bonus cards, but we strongly advise against this

  End Bonus cards are presented here

• Majority of Engineers

  The player with the most engineers scores 40 points. The player with the second most engineers scores 20 points. In case of a tie, the tied players look at the numbers on their engineers; the player with the engineer that shows the highest number wins the tie.

  Note: A player that does not have any engineers may not score these bonus points.

The game is over after the final scoring. The player with the most points is the winner. In case of a tie, the tied players share the victory.

Setup

• The board is two-sided, with one side reserved for 2-player games. The “blocked” actions are unavailable.
• Return 2 locomotives of each number to the box.
• There are only 6 engineers (3x A, 3x B) (as seen by the number of engineer spaces on the board)
• Players take the 8 workers in their color. The remaining 16 workers (the other player colors) are returned to the box and will not be used. Each player begins the game with 6 workers instead of 5
• Each player begins the game with 2 roubles instead of 1

Gameplay

• The game lasts 6 rounds.
• A player may place a worker on his current turn order action space.

Setup

• Return 1 locomotive of each number to the box.
• There are only 6 engineers (3x A, 3x B). The left-most engineer space remains empty.
• Players take the 8 workers in their color. The remaining 16 workers (the other player colors) are returned to the box and will not be used. Each player begins the game with 6 workers instead of 5.

Gameplay

• The game lasts 6 rounds.

Instead of using the player boards included in the base game, the player takes the Germany board in their color.

Basic gameplay remains the same.

The main railroad (München) has a switch, beyond which lie two separate destinations. You will have to decide in which direction (Hamburg or Berlin) you would like to build.

The other two other railroads (Dresden and Nürnberg-Fürth) have several areas with dashed outlines, in which you may place railroad extensions to design these railroads as you see fit.

Unlike the railroads in the base game, these railroads are not yet fully "planned." There are 3 ways you can influence the development of your railroads.

To proceed past space 8 of the München railroad, you must decide whether you will build towards Hamburg or Berlin. On one hand, the longer route towards Hamburg will earn you more points and eventually grant you access to white tracks. On the other hand, taking the shorter route to Berlin will allow you to reach specific upgrades earlier.

When advancing the black track to the space 9 of the München railroad, you must decide to which space 9 you will advance, as it determines where further advancements must be made. You may not change the destination of this railroad for the rest of the game. You may not "reverse course" and the tracks of other colors must also be advanced towards the same destination.

Some areas of the Dresden and Nürnberg-Fürth railroads have dashed outlines. There is an intermediate station located on the first space of each of these areas. These intermediate stations are Hannover (on the Dresden railroad), Würzburg and Frankfurt (on the Nürnberg-Fürth railroad). Whenever you advance the black track on these railroads to one of these intermediate stations, you must place a railroad extension at the corresponding outlined area.

When doing so, you must observe the following rules:

• You must choose and place one of the available railroad extensions that fits the corresponding outlined area (2-space, 3-space, or 4-space) and immediately place a black track on the first space of this new extension.
• If you satisfy the conditions for a particular special space, you receive the depicted advantage.

Note: The sooner you advance to a particular intermediate station, the greater your selection will be when choosing the corresponding railroad extension

The Kiev medal, if acquired, is placed on space 5 of the Dresden railroad. Apart from this tiny geographical variation, the rules regarding the Kiev medal remain the same.

Immediate effects: As soon as you satisfy the conditions for one of these spaces, you immediately and only once receive the depicted advantage. These advantages include: 2 industry advancements, 2 coins, or 1 locomotive/factory.

An additional industry marker: Once you advance a black track to this space, you may take an additional industry marker and place it on space 0 of your industry track. You may still get your second industry marker with the token, making it possible to have 3 industry markers on your industry track.

Income: As soon as you satisfy the conditions for one of these spaces, immediately take one of the income markers and place it faceup next to your board. If you satisfy the conditions for another one of these spaces, you simply take another income marker. You may use each of your income markers once per round (including the round you acquire it) in order to receive the depicted advantage.

The natural tracks may be used on all three railroads of the Germany board. However, as in the base game, you only have 2 of these tracks to use. Therefore, you must decide on which railroads you wish to advance these natural tracks.

Place the Coal board on the game board, with the side featuring 3 action spaces faceup.

Shuffle the 12 foundries and place them as a facedown supply near the board. The back of these tiles depict a boilerman. Then draw two foundries and place them faceup next to the facedown supply.

You will play 1 fewer round when using the Coal module (place 1 blockade on an engineer space). Because of this, you will place 1 fewer A engineer than in the base game.

Each player starts with the same components as they do in the base game, as well as 1 coal and 1 additional coin.

If you wish to use the new components, set them up now. We recommend using the Mining engineer, the tokens with 4 coal and the card with the coal factory. The online implementation will add those components automatically if the coal module is chosen.

Shuffle the new Starting Bonus card with the others. You now have another Starting Bonus card to choose from. A player choosing this new card receives 1 additional coal.

Note: There is no limit to how much coal you can collect in this way.

To use the lower action on the coal board, you must use 2 coal from your personal supply. Take the top tile of the facedown foundry supply and place it as a boilerman ( side up) next to one of your locomotives or factories.

What happens when I add a boilerman to my locomotive?
The boilerman increases the power of the locomotive by 1, meaning that you can reach 1 space further on the corresponding railroad. If doing so satisfies the condition of a special space on your board, you gain the advantage immediately. For all intents and purposes, this locomotive's actual number is now 1 higher than its printed value.
Each locomotive may only have 1 boilerman.
Adding a boilerman to a locomotive is permanent. You may not move a boilerman to a different locomotive or factory. If you move such a locomotive to a different railroad, the boilerman moves along with it. If you return a locomotive with a boilerman to the supply, the boilerman is removed from the game.

What happens when I add a boilerman to a factory?
When you move an industry marker to a factory manned by a boilerman, you perform an improved version of that action.
Depending on the ability of the factory, this can have different effects:
Factories with 1 ability: Immediately use the factory a second time.
Factories with 2 or more abilities: Use one of the abilities a second time.
Point scoring factories: Score (only) 1 additional point.
You are not required to use the effect of a factory manned by a boilerman in full.
Each factory may only have 1 boilerman.
As with the locomotive, the boilerman becomes a permanent part of the factory. You may not move a boilerman to a different locomotive or factory. If you return a factory with a boilerman to the supply, the boilerman is removed from the game.

You may use each of the foundries you have collected once per round. To use a foundry, you must place 2 coal from your personal supply. You may use a foundry even when you cannot perform its effect in full.

Important: You may not use the faceup foundries in the general supply.

Closing a foundry:
You may choose to close a foundry immediately after using it. Doing so allows you to flip the foundry and place it as a boilerman next to a locomotive or factory. Return the coal on the used foundry to the general supply. You may never choose to reopen this foundry. Its action is now lost.

Important: You can only choose to close a foundry immediately after using it.

The appendix contains an overview of available foundries.

Set the game up as you would for 2 players.

Cover the Take 2 coins action with a blockade. This space is not available in the solo game. You will not need the Last Round marker, the Turn Order cards, or the Starting Bonus cards. They can be put back in the box.

Take 5 coins instead of just one. You also will not need the pawn for the turn order track, as the turn order track serves no purpose in the solo game.

Emil, your opponent, is represented by a deck of cards. Emil begins with a supply of 6 workers. Place his 2 remaining workers next to the 50 space of the score track. Emil does not require any other components.

Just as you would in the 2 player game, you will play 6 rounds (5 rounds if you're using the Coal module). However, you will actually be playing this game on your own. Emil doesn't care about scoring points. He's only here to get in your way.

Emil begins the game. At the beginning of each of his turn, draw a card from Emil's deck. Each of his cards depicts one of the action spaces on the game board, which Emil will occupy and prevent you from using. Place the appropriate number of Emil's workers on the depicted action space. Emil doesn't actually perform the action. He thinks performing actions is boring. (Exception: taking locomotives and engineers; see below.) You may now discard the drawn card and take your turn.

There are some special cases when executing Emil's cards:

1. Emil's card depicts an action requiring coins: This doesn't bother Emil at all. Emil is anti-capitalist. When you draw either the "Get 2 track advancements of your choice" or the "Hire an engineer" card, Emil takes the necessary coins from the supply to place on the corresponding space. The worker required for the "Advance 2 tracks of your choice" space is taken from Emil's worker supply, as normal.
2. Emil doesn't have enough workers: When you draw a card that Emil does not have enough workers to use, you simply discard it and draw another. Emil will not be able to block this space. You must continue drawing cards until Emil is able to block the space depicted on a drawn card, or until Emil's deck is exhausted.
3. The action space on Emil's card is occupied: If there is already a worker on the the action space depicted on Emil's card, simply discard the card and draw another (and so on, as required).
4. Emil only blocks spaces that you can use: When you draw a card that depicts an action space that you cannot use (i.e. a track action that you have not yet unlocked the track color), simply discard the card and draw another (and so on, as required). Emil will only bother himself with blocking spaces that you can use.
5. Emil collects locomotives and engineers: When Emil uses an action space that gives him a locomotive or an engineer, place the corresponding component in front of him. If there are no locomotives remaining in the supply, Emil takes the factory with the lowest number. Locomotives and factories taken by Emil are simply gone, they have no further effect in the game. The engineers collected by Emil are only used when determined engineer majority at game end.
6. The light side up engineer: When you draw this card, Emil must place a worker on the light side up engineer's action space.
7. The coal action space: This card should only be used when using the Coal module. Otherwise, remove it from Emil's deck. Emil always places a worker on this action space; never a coin. Emil does not collect coal.
8. Emil must eventually pass If there are no cards left in Emil's deck at the beginning of his turn, or if he has no remaining workers left in his supply, he must pass. You may now take as many consecutive turns as you would like and are able to perform.
9. Emil gets a new toy As soon as you reach a score of 50+ points, take 1 of the workers next to the 50 space of the score track and add it to Emil’s worker supply. Emil now has 7 workers. As soon as you reach a score of 150+ points, add the other worker to Emil’s supply. This will usually happen during the scoring phase. If this happens during a round, and Emil has not yet passed, he may use the new worker in the current round.

Once Emil has blocked an action space, it is your turn. Unlike Emil, you're playing to win! As usual, you choose an action space, place the required workers (or coins), and perform the action.

Once you have completed your turn, draw a card from Emil's deck. You and Emil will alternate turns in this way until you choose to pass. Once you have passed, the round ends and the scoring phase is performed as usual. (Emil will take this opportunity to take a walk. He doesn't score any points; not that he cares.)

After the scoring phase is complete, return all the placed workers to your and Emil's personal supplies. Shuffle all of Emil's cards to prepare his deck for the following round.

After the 6th round, the game ends (after the 5th round if using the Coal module). Proceed with the last scoring phase and finally game end scoring. You will only need to count your own points (again, Emil doesn't care). However, when determining engineer majority, you must consider Emil's collection. If Emil collected more engineers than you, you only score points for 2nd place.

Your goal is to score as many points as you can – and then to score even more next time.

3 spaces on the player board show – next to a track in a certain color – a coin as additional prerequisite.

As soon as you reach one of these spaces with the track in the color shown, you may pay a coin and receive the depicted advantage. You may do this in a later turn.

After you have paid the coin and have received the advantage, you place one of your 3 “Done”- markers onto the symbol of the advantage to show that you have already received it. As usual, you may only receive each advantage once.

Building of the Transcontinental Railroad was started at the same time in the east and the west to meet in Utah. Where the two tracks joined, the “Golden Spike” was driven in.
Each of the two shorter tracks represents one part of this railroad.
Attention: this does not mean that the two tracks are connected. The Transcontinental East ends on space 7, the Transcontinental West on space 9. The black track cannot be moved beyond these spaces.

The space where the two tracks meet has a dashed outline and a +10 points advantage. When you fulfill the conditions of the last space for one of the two tracks you receive 10 additional points during each railroad scoring phase. When you fulfill the conditions of the last space for both tracks you also receive the advantage twice.