Rail Baron is one of the earlier train games - boardgames with a railroad theme.Players move trains along historical USA railroad lines and collect delivery payoffs. They compete to purchase the railroads in order to assemble a network that gives access to important map destinations while simultaneously trying to prevent their opponents from doing so.The GENERAL Index Article List: The GENERAL Vol.15,No.2 Rail Baron - 'Strategy for the Fourth Man - A Rail Baron Clinic' (Strategy) Michael Gray The GENERAL Vol.16,No.5 Rail Baron - 'The Short Game and the Two-Man Game' (Variant Discussion) Gary Charbonneau The GENERAL Vol.25,No.5 Rail Baron - 'Freight Train- A Rail Baron variant' (Variant) Kenneth Waido The GENERAL Vol.23,No.6 Rail Baron - 'My Favorite Lines - The Railroads of Rail Baron' (Strategy) by Matt Ellis The GENERAL Vol.28,No.3 Rail Baron - 'Government Intervention in Rail Baron- A variant for Avalon Hill's game of empire-building' (Variant Discussion) Stephen Taylor, Jim Brown and Alan Marian - BoardGameGeek