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TRANSPORT GAMES for PC

Game scenarios for Transport Tycoon Deluxe and A-Train


A-Train New York to Florida by Streamliner game scenario

These are our two very most favorite video games of all time. They are quite "vintage", having both originated in the 1990's. But the attention to detail is amazing, and they are a welcome change from the sameness of many of the newer simulation games.

You can download our free Florida-themed map scenarios here. However, you will also need the game application to play the scenarios. These are available at several game repository websites (some free and others for purchase), some of which are listed below.

If you get the original Microsoft DOS software, you will also want to download the free DOS emulator called DOSBox, which is compatible with most contemporary operating systems. There is a free optional companion app called DOSShell, which provides a graphical user interface for DosBox's command line.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe box Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an addictive transportation simulation video game for one or two players that allows implementation of several modes of transportation to build a network of routes serving businesses and passengers in the towns and cities on the scenario map.

The Scenarios and Games:


These are two original scenarios and saved game examples that you can download here safely and freely.


Go to: MIAMI TO SOUTH AMERICA


Go to: IMPERIAL WORLD

Get the Application Software:


The Transport Tycoon Deluxe games and scenarios can be played either on the new and free OpenTTD or on the old Microprose software which may be available from Amazon.com at Transport Tycoon Deluxe (DOS) or Transport Tycoon Deluxe (Windows).

Get the Strategy Guide:


The optional 275-page book by Lee Buchanan was published in 1995 and supplements the documentation included with the game. It is designed to give the reader all they need to know to build a transportation network from scratch. It contains winning strategies and tactics. It may be available from Amazon.com at Transport Tycoon: Strategies & Secrets.

About TTD Patch:


These Transport Tycoon Deluxe scenarios can be customized in many ways with the companion application, TTDPatch by Josef Drexler, particularly by using the "pre-signals" option. It allows signaled rail systems where trains do not get trapped coming from opposite directions with nowhere to go. You could use double-track instead, but I prefer using single track with passing sidings wherever possible, more like real US railroad practice.

A-Train Box A-Train is a VERY COOL 1992-vintage railroad simulation game by Maxis Software. You can spend more hours than you should being mesmerized by the trains running on routes and schedules that you devise.

The Scenarios & Games:


A-Train Box There are seven original saved game examples here for Maxis A-Train that you can download here safely and freely. Games scenarios feature Miami, Fort Lauderdale and South Florida Tri-Rail, Metrorail and Florida East Coast Railway passenger railroads, New York City subways and Jersey City Newark PATH Port Authority Trans Hudson.

Go to: A-TRAIN GAME SCENARIOS

Get the Application Software:


The A-Train games here can be played on the original Maxis software which may be available from Amazon.com at A-Train (DOS).

Get the Strategy Guide:


Serious would-be A-Train railroad builders will greatly appreciate A-Train: The Official Strategy Guide, which may be available from Amazon.com. This 366-page book by Nick Dargahi, published in 1992, covers insider tips and tricks, winning strategies for the six map scenarios, innovative track diagrams and many other details about the structure of the game not contained in the manual. Extensive facts, figures, tables and illustrations explain the economies of the various train and building choices. Will make you an A-Train magnate!