User manual GAMES PC SID MEIER S-RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE

[. . . ] ® ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE For IBM PC & compatible computers Sid Meier's x x RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT Minimum System Requirements Computer: IBM, or fully compatible, 80386 16MHz Hard Drive: with at least 5 million bytes (5 meg) available Conventional Memory: a system with a base minimum of 640K of RAM Graphics: VGA graphics card and VGA monitor DOS: MS-DOS 5. 0 or higher Controls: The simulation can be run entirely from the keyboard, or with a mouse and a keyboard. A mouse is recommended as the interface has been designed to take advantage of the mouse. Railroad Tycoon Deluxe does not support a joystick. The installation program checks your system for a number of conditions, and advises you if your system does not meet the conditions. [. . . ] A regular schedule also made it easier to plan the movement of trains, as dispatchers along the line could expect certain trains to arrive in their divisions at scheduled times. In Railroad Tycoon, the scheduling of your trains is also very important. By examining the Station Boxes, you learn what cargos are available for shipment, and where those cargos can be delivered. Your task is to build trains of the proper cars to carry the available cargo, and then rout the train so it moves from stations where cargos are supplied to stations where the cargo can be delivered. For example, in our tutorial game both Richmond and Charlottesville supply and demand passengers. So, a train of passenger cars can run back and forth between these cities picking up passengers at either city and delivering them at the other. To do this, you must build a train of a locomotive and at least one passenger car, and then route the train to run from Charlottesville to Richmond. Having been scheduled, this train runs between the two cities forever, or until you step in to make changes. When a new train is built, it is automatically given a route between the station at which it was built and another station on your railroad. You are rarely going to 66 want your train to run this exact route, so the route needs to be changed, and this is done from the Train Report. For example, assume you are running the Charlottesville & Richmond Railroad. You notice that the supply of coal is building up at Charlottesville Junction and that a train could take this coal to a Steel Mill in Charlottesville, pick up steel there and take it to a factory in Richmond, and pick up manufactured goods there for delivery to Charlottesville. You decide to change the route of Train #3, now scheduled to run back and forth from Charlottesville to Charlottesville Junction. Train Route Orders To change the route of Train #3, open its Train Report and Station Name place the pointer on the open line below Charlottesville in the section marked Scheduled Stops. Press Selector 1, and the route diagram for this train opens. Stop Notice that the current route Sequence of this train is marked. The number 1 next to Charlottesville Junction notes this station as the first station on the route, and the number 2 next to Charlottesville notes it as the second stop. Move the mouse pointer directly below the box marking the station at Richmond, and the information reTrain Route garding supply and demand there Diagram appears to the right. With the pointer below the Richmond station box, press Selector 1 to make Richmond stop number 3. Notice that the station box turns to the color of scheduled stops, the track into the station turns the color of an active route, and that the number 3 appears next to Station Supply & Demand Remove Station Box 67 the station box. Richmond has now been added to this train's route as scheduled stop #3. To check this, press Selector 2 which returns you to the Train Report. Notice that scheduled stop #3 is indeed listed as Richmond. [. . . ] Design influences, component development, and case histories of early locomotives in America; not for beginners. 137 A History Of The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad, by John F. Stover, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 1987. An excellent history of the pioneering American road known as the "railroad university. " How To Operate Your Model Railroad, by Bruce A. An entertaining and understandable discussion of railroad operations as explained for model railroaders. [. . . ]