Thank you, GiochiNScatola!

I found what may be the last new copy of this game in the world. Which is weird, since it was the best strategy game of 2003 or somesuch. Our new dining table arrives in about a week, and I plan to inaugurate it with an all day Railroad Games party! I don't think it will ever live up to the ideal I have in my head of stuffy old men that smell like peppermint and smoke calabash pipes and drinking brandy in between moves, but I'm so happy to have a copy of the best game and most fun I've ever played. I can't even construct a decent sentence about it.

The third edition of Age of Steam is coming soon, but they've simplified the rules - those wimps! Always dumbing down the games for the babies! (I'm not talking about your daughter, Kurt!) So I'm glad to have snagged a 2nd edition. I'm sure no one really cares about this turn of affairs for me, which is why I'm glad I have a blog to post the news to, and imagine that there are interested parties (besides Kurt and Brad who will get an invitation soon!) And Scott, Will, Ian?... if you want to come! And anyone else who reads this! Although none of us stands any chance against Brad who lives and breathes train games. Although I am hoping to channel General Grenville M. Dodge.

Also on tap for the Rail Festival is the olde Avalon Hill Rail Baron and the new Railroad Tycoon. Probably looking at mid-September for Rail Festival 2007.