Manual — Age of Rail: South Africa – Expansion Maps: Allegheny & La Pampa

AGE OF RAIL ALLEGHENY RULES OF PLAY
3-6 players, about an hour

Initial Offering
Initial Stocks are auctioned off one at a time, in the following order: Red C&O, Blue B&O, Orange NYC, Yellow B&M, and Purple PRR.
The Black P&LE railroad is not opened at the beginning of the game.
The first player is the player who owns the Purple PRR stock, then play continues clockwise around the table until the end of the game.

SEQUENCE OF PLAY
Action: Build Track
A railroad may not build a double Track Link going into and out of Pittsburgh.

External Connections
The External Connections on the Allegheny map only pay out the Connection Bonus and do not increase the railroad’s Value.

P&LE Opens
When a railroad reaches Pittsburgh, the Black P&LE railroad opens and a share of P&LE stock is immediately put up for auction, following the rules of the Initial Offering. The first bid is offered by the player whose turn has made the connection. Once a player has won the bid, paid the Treasury, and taken their share of P&LE stock, they must build, at no cost, one Track Link from Pittsburgh. The P&LE’s Income disk is also updated on the Railroad Income Track.

Action: Develop Locations
The player selecting this action must Develop at least one Location (a Settlement or a Metro Area). Both may only be developed if a railroad connects to them.
Up to two Locations may be developed. The first development is free. The second development costs $3 from the player’s personal money supply and is paid to the bank.

Automatic Metro Area Development
If the player chooses not to develop a second time, then an automatic Metro development immediately occurs. It is not required to have a railroad connect to the Metro area for the automatic Metro development to occur.
Which Metro Area is automatically developed is predetermined:

• Pittsburgh is developed first.
• If Pittsburgh is already fully developed, then Cincinnati is developed.
• If Cincinnati is already fully developed, then Detroit is developed.
• If Detroit is already fully developed, then Chicago is developed.
• If Chicago is already fully developed, then nothing happens.

This order of priority is also shown on the Develop Locations action space on the game board.
This expansion uses the base game rules, except where listed below:

Credits
Design: John Bohrer
Artwork: Ian O’Toole
Development: Clay Ross
Editing: Jonathan Bobal
Project Management: Clay Ross
The license for Age of Rail has been kindly granted to Capstone Games by Winsone Games. Copyright Capstone Games 2024. All rights reserved.

Blue C&O’s base is Richmond 1
Red B&O’s base is Baltimore 2
Orange NYC’s base is New York 3
Yellow B&M’s base is Boston 4
Purple PRR’s base is Philadelphia 5

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