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The Track Details Screen: New Track
As soon as you purchase your track, you are taken to the Track Details screen. From here
you assign trains from the Engine Pool (the engine cards on the right hand side of the screen)
to your track. There are two slots for your track: the Freight slot and the Passenger slot. To
assign an engine type to a slot, drag an engine card from the Engine Pool to one of the slots.
Each train is composed of an engine, possibly a tender, and a variable number of cars behind
it. The engine types are color coded:
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Green: Good for freight.
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Purple: Good for passengers.
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Blue: Good for either freight or passengers.
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Yellow: Electric engines. Requires that the track be electrified. Usually good for
both freight and passengers.
Adding Engines
There can be up to ten different classes of engine available to choose from at any one time.
Each engine has the following characteristics:
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Engine Name: The name of the train.
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Engine Picture: A picture of the engine.
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Upgrade: Click to replace the engine with a different engine. See Upgrading
Engines.
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Number: The number of engines assigned to the track. Use the up/down arrows to
set the number. When the card is in the Engine Pool on the right, this is replaced
with a box with two numbers. The top number indicates the number of engines currently in the Pool. The number on the bottom indicates the total number of these
engines that you own. So, if the numbers are 35/90, then you have 35 engines currently unassigned to any track sitting in the Pool out of a total of 90. This means
that you have 55 engines currently assigned to track. In general, it’s not a good idea
to leave a lot of engines in the Pool, since you do pay a small maintenance cost for
them. However, if you don’t have money to buy new engines, you may want to keep
a few unassigned engines around to put on new tracks under construction.
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Cost per engine: The current cost to purchase a new engine.
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Maintenance: The maintenance cost per engine per month.