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Must a company with no legal route buy a train at the end of its operating turn?

The rulebook limits the forced purchase to railroads with a legal route, and players agree.

  • 1830: Railways & Robber Barons rulebook · Rulebook · Forced Train Purchases (6.6.2)
  • elminster41 · Community · 2019-07-13
  • Aureustgo · Community · 2021-03-17

No. The forced train purchase applies only to a railroad that has a legal train route. Without one, a railroad need not own or buy a train at all, and nothing else requires spending.

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