Wabash Cannonball

You do not have to implement the action you select — you choose an option and may then decide to do nothing; the indicator needle is still moved one space to the right when you select it (you can deliberately choose-but-not-act to force shortages). (p.4)

The minimum bid equals the company’s current income divided by the number of sold shares including the one being auctioned, with any decimals rounded up. (p.4)

City, Industrial and Plain hexes may contain locomotives from multiple companies, but Forest and Mountain hexes may contain only one company’s locomotive (and no other company may build there); also only one locomotive from each company can be on any given hex. (p.5)

Dividends are calculated per share as company income divided by the number of sold shares with decimals rounded up, and then each player’s payout is the sum of those per‑share amounts for their shares (so rounding is applied per share). (p.7)

Placing a locomotive in Chicago triggers a Chicago Phase: the company’s income is updated and an immediate Chicago dividend is paid to its shareholders; Wabash is then opened (black loco to Fort Wayne and its income set), and the player who reached Chicago auctions the first Wabash share under the usual auction rules. (p.5, p.8)

The game ends after the next General Dividend is paid once any one of four conditions is met: three or more companies have no locomotives on their Charter, three or more companies have no shares on their Charter, the general house supply has three or fewer houses, or Detroit’s income reaches 8. (p.8)