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1800, 1829 Mainline A company does not have to own a train.
1824 Any available train from the bank or offered by other companies. A
clarification from Lonny Orgler states that the company can choose any of these trains -
if the company has insufficient money for the chosen train, the Director can add the
necessary funds.
1825, 1829 A company does not have to own a train. However, a company in
receivership must buy a train as soon as funds permit unless there is no route on which it
can run. While not stated, this is assumed to be from the bank.
1826 Any available train from the bank or bank pool, or starting in phase 6H, from
another company at an agreed price not exceeding its face value. You may be
compelled to take out a loan to assist with the purchase of a train from the bank.
1830 Avalon Hill rules: The cheapest train available in the bank, or a train
from another company at an agreed price not exceeding its face value.
1830 Avalon Hill clarification: The cheapest train available in the bank.
1830 Francis Tresham: The cheapest train available in the bank, or
a train from another company at an agreed price not exceeding its face value. The
President of the selling company makes the deal simultaneously with any necessary
share sales (this has been interpreted as meaning that the old and new President must both
agree to the deal; and in other ways).
1830 Avalon Hill PC program: As in 1898.
[I am sorry if you find this tedious. I assure you, so do I.]
1830BC, 18VA The cheapest train available in the bank.
1831, 1854, 1862, 18EC, 18NL Any available train from the bank or bank pool, or
from another company, at an agreed price not exceeding its face value.
1835 Any second-hand train (from the bank pool or another company) or the cheapest
new train (only one type can be available at a time). This is what the German rules say.
(One English translation says the cheapest train from the bank or bank pool.)
1837 You can buy any available train: you may pay any agreed amount for a train
from another company; you may buy any train in the bank pool; you may buy any available
new train (there is typically a choice of two).
1838 Rheinland Any second-hand train (from the bank pool or another
company) or the cheapest new train (only one type can be available at a time).
1844, 18FL Any train from the bank; or any train from another company wishing to
sell, at not more than face value.
1846 A currently available train from the bank. If it can afford one of
current types but not the other, or can afford a second hand train, after issuing shares,
the President may not add more cash to buy a more expensive train.
1848 The next new train from the bank.
1851 The cheapest train from the bank or bank pool. The President of the selling
company makes the deal after any necessary share sales.
1860 Not applicable. The company leases the smallest train from the
new trains or the bank pool.
1861 Its choice of train from the bank or bank pool that it can afford
with company credit plus any loans it is able to take out. This is a clarification from
Markus Welborune/Mike Hutton.
1895 Any available train from the bank or bank pool, or from another
company with the same president for at least 1.
1898 The cheapest train available in the bank, or a train from
another company at an agreed price not exceeding its face value. The President of the
selling company makes the deal before any necessary share sales.
18MW The cheapest train available in the bank, or a train from another company with
the same President at a price not exceeding face value.
18Rhl Rhineland The cheapest new train from the bank, or any train from
the bank pool.
18Scan Any available train from the bank or bank pool, or from another company, at
an agreed price not exceeding its face value. However, stock may not be sold to raise
additional cash if buying a train from another company.
18US, 18West The next train available from the bank. If more than one
type is available, the President may choose which one to buy, even if this then requires
him to provide additional funds that would not be required for another available train.
2038 The cheapest spaceship type must be bought from the bank or bank pool.
If the President is helping she can freely choose between a Scout and a Tug of the same type.
Crisis The company goes into 'receivership', a complex process.
Steam Over Holland The cheapest available train. The president does not
have to accept an offer from another president to buy a train from that company.
Rest The cheapest train available in the bank or bank pool. Thus a company may be
compelled to buy a used train.
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