1830: Railways & Robber Barons
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In a forced train purchase, must the company buy the cheapest train available?
Players agree the cheapest-train limit applies only with personal cash, but the posts are few and one disputes the detail.
- thepackrat · Community · 2011-05-27
- Pentaclebreaker · Community · 2013-04-09
- clearclaw · Community · 2013-04-08disagrees
Only when the president must add personal cash. Then the company must buy the cheapest train available from the bank and pool combined. It is never forced to buy from another railroad, and any price it pays another railroad may not exceed face value. A purchase paid entirely from the treasury is not held to the cheapest train.
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