New MAINLINE Magazine is Coming!

Only two days left until the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for the second issue of TraXX Mainline Magazine! Get ready for March 28th, when you’ll be able to purchase:

  • The Digital Edition ($25) – will include all of the pages featured in the Standard Edition.
  • Standard Edition (printed) ($40-$50);
  • Collectors Edition (printed) ($100);
  • Hell on Wheels Edition – USA ONLY ($260);

The Standard Edition of MAINLINE includes:

  • 28 pages of content, professionally printed in full color with a satin finish on a 110# cover stock and 70# page stock.
  • Additional game components needed will be provided on 100# 11″x17″ pages with a satin finish.
  • “1864: Forty-Niner”, an 18XX “magazine game” set in the western United States that utilizes the rules and components of “1861: Railways of the Russian Empire and 1867: Railways of Canada”.
  • “Union Pacific Express”, an Age of Steam map designed by Kevin McCurdy, co-host of the Age of Steam Con and designer of many AoS maps.
  • “Do Not Hump”, a roll-n-write game about the famous Bailey Yard.
  • Historical articles about The Forty-Niner Route, the Moffat Tunnel, the Sun Valley Ski Resort, the Bailey Yard, and the Lucin Cutoff.

The Collector’s Edition is always a special version of MAINLINE. It contains additional historical content and additional games. Most importantly, it is also a vehicle for super supporters of TraXX to contribute to what we do.

The Collector’s Edition of MAINLINE contains all of the materials of the Standard Edition, plus the following:

  • 32 pages of content, professionally printed in full color with a satin finish on a 110# cover stock and 70# page stock.
  • Additional game components needed will be provided on 100# 11″x17″ pages with a satin finish. “Omaha Spur”, an 18XX “Sharpie Rails” train game.
  • “Promontory Point”, a fan map, and MacGuffins for Northern Pacific.
  • A historical article about the Credit Mobilier company.

The Hell on Wheels Edition will be a BIG HIT and will include a boxed copy of the professionally printed, full and original 18XX game “1868: Wyoming” by John Harres! Please note that this edition is limited to the United States only, and there will be only 35 copies available.

The Hell on Wheels Edition edition will have a few pages more and there will be:

  • 36 pages of content, professionally printed in full color with a satin finish on a 110# cover stock and 70# page stock.
  • Additional game components needed will be provided on 100# 11″x17″ pages with a satin finish.
  • An article entitled “Grenville Dodge and The Gangplank” for some Wyoming and Union Pacific history.
  • An article entitled “The 1868: Wyoming Story”, sharing the inspiration of the design of “1868: Wyoming”.

The 1868: Wyoming by John Harres will be published in early 2024 by a well-known board game publisher. So don’t worry if you are from Europe or even Canada.

You can read more about the games:

  • 1864: Forty-Niner
  • Union Pacific Express
  • Do Not Hump

directly on the Kickstarter draft page:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traxx-mainline/mainline-magazine-spring-2023-issue

Don’t forget this date March 28th, it will be the next Tuesday!

 

 

 

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