User manual GAMES PC 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. The installation program checks your system for a number of conditions, and advises you if your system does not meet the conditions. The installation program decompresses and copies numerous files from the distribution disks onto your hard drive. [. . . ] 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. Since you want this train to return to Charlottesville from Richmond, you have to add Charlottesville to the route again as stop #4. Place the mouse pointer on the open line below Richmond in the Scheduled Stops section and press Selector 1 to open the route diagram. Move the mouse pointer under the box for the Charlottesville station and press Selector 1 again. The number 4 appears with the number 2 next to the Charlottesville station box, noting that this station is stop #4 as well as stop #2. Return to the Train Report by pressing Selector 2 to be sure the four scheduled stops are arranged in order from 1 to 4 as Charlottesville Junction, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Charlottesville again. As the final step in arranging this route, pull down the Train Type menu and choose the "Limited" option. 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. [. . . ] Cade's Locomotive Guide, by Dennis Lovett and Leslie Wood, Marwain, Bletchley, 1988. A guide for modeler's of British locomotives, but includes useful information and photos. This Fascinating Railroad Business, by Robert Selph Henry, Third Edition, Revised, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, 1946. Includes a variety of interesting details about the history of constructing and operating railroads until the time of its being published. [. . . ]