1856

Railroading in Upper Canada from 1856 Bill Dixon https://18xx.guide · v1.0.0

Players	3	4	5	6
Start cash	$500	$375	$300	$250
Cert limit	20	16	13	11

Bank $12,000. Eleven companies, six privates, and the Canadian Government Railways.

StartPrivate auction

An 1830-style auction of six privates. Contested resolve from left of the highest bid.
A full round of passes before the last is sold runs an OR in which only privates pay, then drops the Flos Tramway $5 if it is unsold.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell then buy, or buy then sell.
Par $65 · $70 · $75 · $80 · $90 · $100.
A player may hold 60%, the pool 50%.
No selling a share the turn you bought it.
Buying a private from another player, at any price, is a turn's purchase.

SRCapitalization

Incremental capitalization before a 6 is for sale. Floats when a number of shares are sold equal to the number of the train for sale.
Money from shares 6–10 is held by the bank until it connects to its destination, traced from home ignoring distance and tokens.
When a 6 or D is for sale, full capitalization at 60% sold and existing companies receive any remaining capital.

SRMarket zones

Yellow or brown: those shares don't count against the cert limit.
Brown: may hold >60%.
Into the closed zone, a company closes for good: shares, tokens, and treasury are lost; its trains go to the pool.

OROperating round

Track → token → run → interest → dividends → trains → repay loans.
From the first 3 to the first 5, a company may buy a private for ½–2× face.

ORLoans

Until the first 6, one $100 loan an OR, any time before repaying. Never more loans than shares players hold.
$10 interest on each, after running; one taken later nets $90. What the treasury cannot pay comes off revenue, then from the president, who sells shares if they must.
Repay any for $100 last thing, and must repay any over the limit, the president topping up.

ORLay track

One tile. The first in a hex pays its terrain.
A private's hex is closed to track while a player owns it.
From the first 6, small cities may become a large city or plain track.

ORTokens

Home token is free, then $40, then $100 each.

ORPay dividends

Withhold, or pay $0, ←1 · pay anything →1

ORBuy trains

A company with a route must own a train.
A president paying toward a forced train buys the cheapest from the bank or pool.
A D costs $750 with a 4, 5, or 6 traded in, even at the train limit.

Canadian Government Railways

When the first 6's buyer ends its turn, every company repays its loans from its treasury, then the president's cash—no share sales. Any still owing are absorbed into the CGR; if none, it never forms.
Holders swap shares 2:1 for CGR, mixing companies; odd shares are discarded. If the CGR needs >10 shares, it issues another 10.
Price the higher of $100 or the average of the absorbed companies—ignoring the lowest if 3+ were absorbed.
CGR takes the cash and 5s, 6s, and Ds of absorbed companies.
It has 10 tokens. Tokens of absorbed companies can be replaced—home tokens first, no more than 1 per tile. Additional tokens cost $100.
It holds 3 trains and buys only 5s, 6s, and Ds. Trainless, it borrows a train and withholds.
The cert limit then counts the companies left, started or not, the CGR among them.

ENDEndgame

The bank breaking ends the game after that set of ORs—or, if it breaks in an SR, after the next set of ORs.
A president who cannot pay interest, a forced loan repayment, or a forced train is bankrupt, and the game ends at once.
Privates score at face. Each loan takes $10 off its company's share price.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	OR/SR	Limit	Off-board	Scraps	Brings
2	6	$100	1	4	1st		Yellow
3	5	$225	2	·	·		Green · privates buyable
4	4	$350	·	3	·	2
5	3	$550	3	2	2nd		Brown · privates close
6	2	$700	·	·	·	3	Gray · CGR · no loans
D	∞	$1,100	·	·	3rd	4

Cert limit from the first 6
Companies left	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4
3 players	28	25	22	20	18	15	13	10
4 players	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8
5 players	18	16	15	13	11	10	8	7
6 players	15	14	12	11	10	8	7	6

Companies
Company		Home		Destination		Tokens
BB	Buffalo, Brantford & Goderich	J15	Brantford	N17	Welland	3
CA	Canada Air Line	D17	Glencoe	H15	Woodstock	3
CPR	Canadian Pacific	M4	Barrie	N11	Toronto	4
CVR	Credit Valley	N11	South Toronto	I14	Drumbo	3
GT	Grand Trunk	P9	Oshawa	K8	Orangeville	4
GW	Great Western	F15	London	A20	Windsor	4
LPS	London & Port Sarnia	C14	Maudaumin	F17	St. Thomas	2
TGB	Toronto, Grey & Bruce	K8	Orangeville	H5	Lake Huron	2
THB	Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo	L15	Hamilton	J11	Guelph	2
WR	Welland	O16	Niagara Falls	L15	Hamilton	3
WGB	Wellington, Grey & Bruce	J11	Guelph	F9	Goderich	2

Privates
Private	Face	Pays	Power
Flos Tramway	$20	$5	None.
Waterloo & Saugeen	$40	$10	Its company may close to lay #59 in Kitchener, put a free token there, or both, unconnected, as its lay and token.
The Canada Company	$50	$10	Its company lays an extra tile in its hex, unconnected.
Great Lakes Shipping	$70	$15	Its company may close to put the port on an anchor. From the first 3 to the first 5: +$20 there, for it alone.
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge	$100	$20	Its company adds +$10 at Buffalo. Others may buy the right from it for $50—or from the bank once closed.
St. Clair Frontier Tunnel	$100	$20	The same, at Sarnia.

1856

Tile manifest 122 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 55 tiles

#1 ×1

#2 ×1

#3 ×3

#4 ×3

#5 ×2

#6 ×2

#7 ×7

#8 ×13

#9 ×13

#55 ×1

#56 ×1

#57 ×4

#58 ×3

#69 ×1

Green from the first 3 · 31 tiles

#14 ×4

#15 ×4

#16 ×1

#17 ×1

#18 ×1

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#23 ×4

#24 ×4

#25 ×1

#26 ×1

#27 ×1

#28 ×1

#29 ×1

#59 ×2

#120 ×1

#121 ×2

Brown from the first 5 · 34 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×1

#41 ×3

#42 ×3

#43 ×2

#44 ×1

#45 ×2

#46 ×2

#47 ×2

#63 ×4

#64 ×1

#65 ×1

#66 ×1

#67 ×1

#68 ×1

#70 ×1

#122 ×1

#125 ×4

#126 ×1

#127 ×1

Gray from the first 6 · 2 tiles

#123 ×1

#124 ×1

OO Kitchener, Hamilton, Welland · T Toronto · B-L Barrie or London · Lon London · Bar Barrie · H Hamilton · L a #125 may replace a #14 or #15 there. From the first 6, 3, 4, and 58 may become 5, 57, and 6, or 7, 9, and 8; 1, 2, 55, and 56 may go green.