| I picked up steam as an excuse to finally guilt my friends into playing a train game with me. Railrood Tycoon sat, lovingly sorted and baggied, for months without a single play. Finally Steam came and promised to be less daunting and easy to track. Having never actually gotten to _play_ RRT, i couldn't tell you if this was a fair assessment.
Still, steam was fairly straightforward, and aside from a few misunderstandings about what the actual benefit the "upgrade engine" card provided and a late start making rules comprehension a little slow, we all declared we would play again.
All of us being train-game novices, we had a fairly low-scoring game and didn't manage to pull out all of the goods from the extra goods spaces on the side of the board. After reading a review/comparison on BGG, it seems that's quite unusual. I'm ok with this, though, because it means we have plenty more strategy to unlock if we ever manage to play again. | 
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