Railways Through Time — Rules Manual

Introduction
It is the mid 19th century. Borrowing ideas from the earlier Time Travelers, Thomas Edison has adapted his own version of the “Tesla Chrono Coil”. With the help of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Edison has outfitted several of their locomotives to travel through time and assembled his own group of misfit engineers to cash in on the profits that await. The job won’t be easy, but the profits could be great. Are you ready to travel the Railways Through Time?
Railways Through Time is an expansion for Railways of the World. You will need the pieces from Railways of the World (track and city tiles, bonds, money, empty city markers, trains and first player marker) to play Railways Through Time.
The basic gameplay has not changed from Railways of the World except where noted. For basic rules questions please refer to the Railways of the World rule manual. Any modification or change to a basic rule is presented here.
Components
8 Time Period Boards
Each board represents a different time period. The maps are divided into hexes. Each hex may contain a city, mountains (brown), open terrain (green) or time warp (glowing red). Water (blue) may be present and Ridges (dark brown) may run along the sides of some hexes.
Other components include:
40 Operation Cards
1 Score Track
Starting the Game
Players begin by picking which time period boards they wish to play with. The recommended number of time period boards used in a game is equal to the number of players +1. The Income Track board is always used. It is recommended that players always include at least one time period with a red city.
Randomly place goods cubes in each city equal to the number printed on that city. Unlike previous expansions, when playing 2 and 3 player games do not reduce the number of goods placed in cities.
Place face-up next to the board the 4 starting Railroad Operation Cards: The Railroad Era Begins, Time Blazer, Speed Record and Passenger Lines.
Remove from the deck any operation cards that are specific to time periods not used in the current game. Then reveal additional operation cards equal to twice the number of players.
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New Gameplay
In Railways Through Time, players may now connect to the glowing red “time warp” hexes. Whenever a player connects track to a time warp hex he must add an extra $1,000 to the cost of his build. Building track from a city into a time warp hex ends a player’s action just as it would when building city to city.
Ending the Game
The number of empty city markers that ends the game (same mechanics as Railways of the World) depends on the number of players. The chart for this can be found on the Income Track board.
Turn Order
Every round begins with an auction to decide the play order. The auction order always follows the order of the previous round. The first player who passes must pay half his bid (rounded down) and place a train at the end of the Turn Order chart on the score track. The next player to pass becomes the 2nd to last player on the Turn Order chart. This continues until all but the player with the highest bid passes. The winning bidder pays the bank his full bid and becomes the first player for this round.

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Delivering Goods Through Time
When a player has tracks that emerge from time warp hexes in two
different time periods, he may deliver goods freely between those
two cities.
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Goods can travel in any direction through time once players begin
building their network.
Players may NOT use time warps to deliver cubes to cities that
reside in the same time period. Goods may NEVER exit a time
period and reenter into the same time period.
Tracks built out of time warps MUST always connect to a city.
Goods may travel through many different time periods before
reaching their final destination.
Claiming Time Lines
In Railways Through Time, Major Lines have been replaced with
Time Lines. Each time period has one or two Time Lines listed at
the top corners of the board.
Players will compete to be the first to connect the two cities in a
Time Line with track on that board. Once a player completes his
first Time Line he claims it by placing one of his train tokens on
that Time Line listing. No other player can claim that Time Line.
In this example, the link travels from the purple Stone Age city
to the red Napoleonic city. This red cube delivery only requires a
level 1 engine and it is worth 1 victory point.
In this example, the link travels from the red Napoleonic city to the
purple Stone Age city and then ends at the blue Stone Age city. This
blue cube delivery requires a level 2 Engine and it is worth 2 victory
points.
In this example the red cube travels from the blue city to the purple
city in the Stone Age, then jumps to the gray city in Egypt, and
finally lands at the red city in the Napoleonic era. This red cube
delivery requires a level 3 Engine and it is worth 3 victory points.
Time Lines do not award points at the moment they are claimed.
At the end of the game players count the number of Time Lines
they have completed and are awarded victory points according to
the chart on the score board.
All future Time Lines a player completes after his first
MUST CONNECT to his original Time Line BEFORE
they can be claimed. See the example below.
Time Blazer – The first player to deliver a goods cube through
time gains 2 additional points on the income track.
Boost – The cost of an engine upgrade is reduced by $5,000.
This can reduce the cost of an engine upgrade to $0.
Time Bounty – The first player to deliver a goods cube to any
city in the time period named on this card gains 1 additional point
on the income track. The goods cube MUST originate from a
different time period not the one listed on this card.
New Operations Cards
Credits
Game Concept by:
Brett Kitani & Charlie Bink
Game Design by:
Charlie Bink
Edited by:
Sean Brown & Rick Soued
Cover art:
David A. Oram
Map art by:
Paul E. Niemeyer &
Charlie Bink
Playtesting:
Brett Kitani, Shayla Chase,
Brandon Allen, Adina Ianku,
Karl Fenner, Ron Wiggins, Ray
Peterson, Todd “Matthew” Sweet,
Alan Reeve, Ben Rhoads,
Rich Waldbiesser, Sue Waldbiesser,
Steve Ellis, James Eastham, Martin
Bell, Sean Brown, Carey Grayson,
Rick Soued, Keith Blume,
& Joanne Soued.

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