The player draws a railway track in one empty hex on her individual sheet. The white die determines in which region the player must draw. The black die determines which type of track the player may draw (there are always two options). Each hex may only be drawn into once. Players can't build in a hex in which they’ve already built (no crossings or junctions). A player's railway tracks do not need to form one single connected network. There may be separate small networks on a player's map. Players can even draw tracks which connect to no cities.

Cities (numbered 1-6) cannot (and do not need to) be drawn in. A track bordering on a city connects to that city. Town hexes on the other hand can be drawn in, and a town is only connected if there’s a railway track going through its hex. A track going through a town hex will always pass through the town.

The player crosses off the checkbox corresponding to the die she picked for her engine. It is the total of crossed-out checkboxes that determines the strength of a player's engine, not the printed number: each box checked improves the engine power by one. Each die value can only be used once to upgrade a player's engine, and its maximum strength is six. The checkboxes do not need to be crossed off in numerical order! The engine strength indicates the maximum number of cities/towns that can be crossed/reached when delivering goods.

The white die determines the source city of the delivery. Choose a good on the supply board from the corresponding city. The good must be delivered to a city of its colour (grey goods can be delivered to city 3 or 4).

If you play with the optional black Coal goods, these can be delivered to any city (they act as wilds).

To be able to deliver the good, the player must have a series of contiguous railway connections between cities on her map so that a route can be traced from the source city to the destination city (other cities and towns can be crossed).

The delivery distance is equal to the number of cities and/or towns the good will reach during the transport (example: a direct route from one city to another has distance of one). To be able to make a delivery the player's engine must have a strength equal to or higher than that delivery distance. The good is then placed back in the bag and the player scores a number ofpoints equal to the delivery distance, which she records by crossing off the checkboxes next to her map.

The player does not have to take the shortest possible route and indeed will want to take the longest possible route allowed by her engine. However, a good may not pass through the same city twice during a delivery (no loops).

The player takes the action tile whose die symbol corresponds to the white die. The tile can be taken from the centre of the table or stolen from another player if it is not turned sideways. To indicate she has just taken the tile, she turns it sideways. In the next round, right before she drafts a white die, she must turn the tile upright (in this way, a player is guaranteed at least one opportunity to use the tile before another player can steal it). As their action, a player can steal one of her own tiles just to turn it sideways.

There are two types of tiles. Tiles with a lightning bolt are one-time use only and must be returned to the centre of the table after use (but they are kept until used or stolen). Tiles with an infinity symbol (∞) stay with the player until another player steals them. There's no way for a player to voluntarily get rid of them.

• Players total the points they gained by making deliveries during the game.
• They also score points for their rail network: each completed connection between two cities is worth one point, plus one point per town crossed by the connection.
• Players that have upgraded their steam engine to a strength of 4/5/6 gain 1/2/3 extra points (Only the checkboxes on the engines, without bonus from action tile 4 a/b).
• Finally they add or subtract the victory points on the action (and order) tiles they hold.

Olivia also uses one individual sheet, but instead of drawing rails she crosses off hexes to indicate her growing influence in the map's six regions.

Setup

The game is set up as usual with the following differences:

• When you draw the goods during setup, line them up in random order on the cities (see example).
• You can play in Medium or Hard mode, just as in a normal game. Only draw the borders on your individual sheet.
• The alternate action tile 2 for solo play is used instead of the normal action tile 2.

• Amongst the optional rules, only the medium and hard setup rules (mountains) can be used. No Coal (black) goods, no starting powers, no order tiles.
• Olivia starts the game with some influence on the map. Choose the difficulty level you want and roll the corresponding number of dice. Cross off one empty hex in the region rolled on each die (see example).

Olivia's Difficulty Levels

Clerk	- 1 die
Conductor	- 2 dice
Machinist	- 3 dice
Engineer	- 4 dice
Investor	- 5 dice
Rail Baron	- 6 dice

On each turn, roll three white dice and the black special die. Use two white dice to perform two actions. Then Olivia will use the remaining white die for her action.

Play as usual, but you perform two actions per turn. The black die is the same for both actions. Ignore the order of the goods when delivering as it is only used during Olivia’s turn. You may choose any good to deliver that matches the destination city color.

One rule changes: each permanent action tile (showing the ∞ symbol) can only be used for one of your actions each turn.

She uses the white die you left her and follows this sequence:

1. She crosses off an empty hex in the region corresponding to the die. The exact hex crossed off does not matter, only the number of hexes crossed off in the region. Olivia can cross off town hexes, but not cities. If all hexes in the region are crossed off when Olivia must cross one, she immediately wins the game.
2. If you have a non-sideways action tile with the same number as Olivia's die, you must return it next to the board.
3. If the city corresponding to her die is empty, Olivia re-rolls it and starts back at step 1. (This means she could cross off hexes in different regions, or even several hexes in the same region.)
4. If there are three or more hexes crossed off in Olivia’s die region, she removes the last (rightmost) good in line from the corresponding city and earns points equal to the number of crossed hexes in that region.

The game ends as usual, when three cities are empty. The turn is completed (meaning Olivia will always play last). You score points as in a normal game.

Olivia scores as follows:

• She scores points for deliveries in her phase 4
• She always scores 3 points for her engine (as if it was power 6)
• For her network, Olivia adds the number of crossed hexes in the two regions where she crossed the most. (She always scores exactly two regions, in case of ties only 2 regions are scored.)
• Olivia then scores positive points for all the action tiles remaining near the board (only score positive tiles, ignore the -2 tiles).

To win you must score more points than Olivia. A tie means you have lost.