C&O/B&O (1969)

Is this any way to run a railroad?

It is if you can pick up more passenger and freight revenues than your opponent! An authentic railroad dispatching game based on the actual C&O/B&O railroad. Players compete against each other as well as the elements (floods, derailments, collisions, mountain slides) to operate the most efficient railroad system.

from "The Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"

C&O/B&O (1969) Discontinued 1972
Designed by Tom Shaw

An effort to improve on the failure of DISPATCHER. Acclaimed by certain railroad buffs, it was still a dismal failure both as a game and as a seller.

Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List:

• The GENERAL Vol.5,No.5
  • C&O/B&O – “COVER STORY: Little B & O Peep Game” (Commentary)
• The GENERAL Vol.6,No.2
  • The Question Box - Anzio, C&O/B&O