Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains Expansion Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Setup
• How to Use This Expansion
• Placing a Tile on the Rocky Mountains
• Rocky Mountains Expansion Tiles
• Rocky Mountains Expansion Upgrades
• Contents

Setup

Use this setup instead of the base game setup, including the new components from the Rocky Mountains Expansion as necessary.

1. Put the gameboard in the center of the table with the Rocky Mountains Expansion boards inserted in the middle of it.

2. On the turn track, place 1 whistle token per player on the whistle space. Then find the coal space with a number of pawns that matches the number of players you have. Starting with that space and working down, place 2 coal tokens per player on each coal space. These might seem like tall stacks with 4 or 5 players, but if you orient the tokens the same way they'll stack nicely.

3. Place the gold nuggets (combine base game and expansion nuggets) with numbers facedown, along with coal tokens, whistle tokens, and resource tokens on one side of the board.

4. Create a stack of each railroad share type (include the Rocky Mountains Expansion shares with the shares from the base game) on the side of the board. Stack each type in numerical order with the number 1 share on top.

5. Shuffle the expansion Upgrades with the base game Upgrades, and randomly choose six more than the number of players. For your first game, it is recommended to include Dynamite Cart, Mining Complex, Mountain Sheds, and Tunnel Network. For subsequent games, you might want to always include 2 of those 4 Upgrades listed above and choose randomly for the rest. For a greater challenge, choose all of your Upgrades randomly.

6. Place four of the chosen Upgrades faceup on the four marked positions on the Expansion board, and put the rest to the side of the gameboard.

7. Shuffle the 15 end tiles (dark green tile back, from both the base game and the Rocky Mountains Expansion). Place 8 tiles faceup in the leftmost column on the game board, and put the other tiles back in the box.

   Separate out the 24 special tiles (from both the base game and the Rocky Mountains Expansion): 12 Town, 2 Coal Yard, 2 Trading Post, 2 Whistle Factory, 1 General Store, 1 Gold Mine, 1 Black Market, 1 Scrap Yard, 1 Supply Depot, 1 Switch Yard.

8. Choose 1 Coal Yard, 1 Trading Post, 2 random Town tiles, 1 other random special tile (not a Coal Yard, Trading Post, or Town) and 3 random ordinary tiles (with or without stops on them). Randomly place these 8 tiles faceup onto the board in the fourth column from the right.

How to Use This Expansion

Before playing with the Rocky Mountains Expansion, you should be familiar with the base Whistle Stop game. If possible, play at least one game of Whistle Stop before including the expansion.

While you can pick and choose elements of this expansion to include in your games, we suggest including everything the first time you play so you get a feel of how all the components work together. Afterwards, you may want to play with only some of the expansion. All upgrades are compatible with the base game except for Dynamite Cart, Mining Complex, Mountain Sheds, and Tunnel Network, which require the Rocky Mountains Expansion gameboard.

All of the Rocky Mountains Expansion components have the circular Rocky Mountains Expansion symbol (mountain icon) on them.

Placing a Tile on the Rocky Mountains

To place a tile on the Rocky Mountains Expansion game board, you must spend a coal or whistle token in addition to the normal cost for taking an action with your train. The icons on the bottom of each space show the cost for placing a tile in each of those spaces. Tokens spent for placing tiles here are returned to the supply immediately.

When you place a tile in the mountains, you gain a reward based on the icons in the center of the space: a rare resource of your choice, a rare resource of your choice and a gold token, or the Upgrade that was in the space before you placed the tile. You gain these Upgrades at no additional cost, and they are like normal Upgrades afterward. If you gain a rare resource as a reward for placing a tile, take it immediately, before your train moves into it, so that you may spend it in a newly placed Town you put down.

Rocky Mountains Expansion Tiles

• Small circle whistle stop: When your train lands on a small circle whistle stop, gain a whistle token.

• Small circle gold nugget stop: When your train lands on a small circle gold nugget stop, gain a gold nugget token.

• Small circle common resource stop: When your train lands on a small circle comon [sic] resource stop, gain a common resource of your choice (white, brown, or gray).

• Rocky Top: When your train lands on this Rocky Top town, if you spend 1 white and 1 green resource, take the top Rocky Top railroad share from the supply and gain 7 fame points. Otherwise, lose 2 fame points.

• Black Market: When your train lands on the Black Market, you may swap a stock share for 1 gold token or 1 gold token for a stock share of your choice. You may only choose shares in companies that are currently on the board (including the new end tiles below). Swapped shares are removed from the game.

• Scrap Yard: When your train lands on the Scrap Yard, you may discard one tile from your hand and either gain all resources and tokens shown on that tile or 2 coal tokens.

• Supply Depot: When your train lands on the Supply Depot, gain 1 coal token and 1 common resource of your choice.

• Switch Yard: When your train lands on the Switch Yard, you may immediately move that train to any other unoccupied small circle stop or special tile in the same column. If a small circle stop is occupied by one of your trains, however, you may move through it to another stop, using normal movement rules.

Rocky Mountains Expansion Upgrades

• Depot Box: When you place a train on the resource track, you may take a share of your choice instead of the listed reward. You may only take shares of companies currently shown on the board.

• Dynamite Cart: Place a tile in the Rocky Mountains for 1 less coal. For example, placing a tile on a green mountain space costs 1 coal instead of 2 coal or 1 whistle. Placing a tile on a brown space is free instead of 1 coal.

• Extended Gondola: Gain a fifth action spot on your player board that may only be used with whistle tokens. You may use it immediately. You may only use your fifth action with a whistle token; place your whistle token on this Upgrade to record the action, like any of your other four action spots.

  You may take this action in any order (i.e., it does not have to be taken after all of your other actions have been taken).

• Mining Complex: Whenever you place a tile in the mountains, gain 1 gold token. If you obtain this Upgrade in the mountains, then gain 1 gold token immediately.

• Mountain Sheds: When you move a train either to, through, or from a tile in the mountains, gain 1 coal token. If you obtain this Upgrade in the mountains, then gain a coal token right away.

• Private Lines: Spend a coal token to move one of your trains to another existing stop (large or small) in the same column. If you move to a stop with one of your trains on it, you may pass through your train to another stop using normal movement rules.

• Salvage Yard: Spend a coal token to discard a tile from your hand and gain either 1 token or resource cube shown on the tile or receive 2 coal tokens.

Contents

• 1 North Rocky Mountains Expansion board
• 1 South Rocky Mountains Expansion board
• 9 Upgrade tiles
• 4 Gold Nugget tokens
• 6 Rocky Top railroad shares
• 2 Gold tiles
• 4 Whistle tiles
• 4 Special tiles
• 5 End tiles (dark green back)
• 2 Ordinary Train Route tiles
• 2 Town tiles
• 2 Common Resource tiles

Transcriber note: the component list is transcribed from the printed "Contents" page as shown; the printed company name on the red ribbon of the middle end tile is only partly legible in the scan.