User manual GAMES PC POOL OF RADIANCE

[. . . ] The installation program decompresses and copies numerous files from the distribution disks onto your hard drive. The install program also auto-detects your computer's configuration and provides recommendations for sound, speech, and control device (keyboard, mouse). The entire installation procedure can take a variable amount of time depending on the speed of your computer and hard drive. Technical Notes: This install program creates a sub directory on your hard disk titled "C:\MPS\RAILSDX" and copies all files into that sub directory. [. . . ] A great many extra trains insures timely service, but run up costs so much that railroad profits shrink. In practice, the master of the road provides the locomotives and cars that the dispatcher requires to meet the demands for service. The dispatcher receives requests for service from industry and uses this information to plan what trains are required. Railroads found that by regularly scheduling certain trains, or by arranging with important customers to provide service at specific times, passengers and shippers could make their plans to ship or receive according to the schedule. 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. This makes Train #3 a Limited train and it stops only at stations on its route. This makes no difference now, but if more stations are added at a later time, it prevents needless or wasteful stops. Train #2 is now scheduled to run its route between these four stations. After it completes its route, reaching Charlottesville for the second time coming back from Richmond, it returns to the first station on its route and begins the route all over again. 68 The number and types of cars that make up a train are called its consist. The dispatcher plans the consist of a train to insure that the correct types of cars are available to carry waiting cargos. At stops along its route a train may change its consist several times as it makes pickups and deliveries. In Railroad Tycoon, you may arrange for regularly scheduled consist changes to take place at stops along a train's route so that the train contains correct cars for cargo pickups. You can coordinate the changes in the train's consist with its scheduled stops, so that the train may carry several different types of cargos in one circuit of its route. If all the cars needed were put on at the same time, only some of the cars would be needed at one time, and the others would be just extra weight for the locomotive to pull. For an example of planning a train's consist changes, return to the Train Report for Train #3 of the Charlottesville & Richmond whose schedule was just rearranged in the section above. Train #3 is now scheduled to run to four stops to take advantage of several related industries. [. . . ] The Guinness Railway Book, by John Marshall, Guinness, Enfield, 1989. Interesting railroad facts, records, and trivia. A History Of The American Locomotive, Its Development 1830-1880, by John H. White, Jr. , Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1968, and Dover Publications, New York, 1979. [. . . ]