Empire Builder is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track, and then the delivery of goods along those railroad tracks. The original Empire Builder game is set in North America, but the line has expanded to include games set across the world, on the moon and even in a fantasy land. They are collectively called "the Empire Builder series".
The Empire Builder games are sometimes called Crayon Rails games because players ...
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Empire Builder is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track, and then the delivery of goods along those railroad tracks. The original Empire Builder game is set in North America, but the line has expanded to include games set across the world, on the moon and even in a fantasy land. They are collectively called "the Empire Builder series".
The Empire Builder games are sometimes called Crayon Rails games because players mark their tracks on the board with plastic crayons (or sometimes with markers or other items).
Empire Builder was originally released in 1980 by Mayfair Games. It was quite successful, and is now in its sixth edition. In addition, the success of the original has resulted in the release of an entire Empire Builder series of games:
Sky Zone is another train game that uses some variant of the Empire Builder system (and is generally not available). Most of the titles of the series are available in the Mayfair-authorized computer game named Empire...
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