CV8610-IronRoad-P65.TAP
by Mike Turner & Paul Jefferies (Star Dreams)

As soon as this project came up I knew you'd be just the city slicker to
pull it off. You see, it all started after a game of five card stud in the
Crazy Horse saloon. I was just about leaving when Bill Mitchell who owns
the joint hustled me into his olflce.
Now, I'd better explain something here. In this little old town of
Finsville we've had the same Mayor for 30 years, and old Eli Jakes has made
himself mighty popular in that time. But we were sorry to hear that he's
going to retire in September this year. Well, Bill's made no secret of the
fact he intends to run for office, and he had a campaign idea he wanted to
sound me out on.
This town suffers a little because it's a few miles the wrong side of
nowhere, and the railroad company won't extend the line beyond Start City,
nearly a hundred miles west of here, on account of they think it'd take too
long to pay for itself.
"We know they're wrong, don't we?" said Bill. "They haven't reckoned on the
six or seven towns between here and Start. There's mining there and if some
of those places were connected up, a railroad could easily make a profit."
Anyway, the most important thing he had to say was that he'd got the
railroad company to agree to adopt a track and run it for him if he could
raise the initial finance and get a contractor to build it and start it
running. And, of course, if he could get this done by the elections in
September, he'd be sure of election to office. Everyone in town wants a
railroad. Of course, the track must be completed in time, and Bill's rivals
will try to stop it being done.
So you get a budget and we want you to build us a railroad! Remember you
need at least one engine for track-laying and one each for every town the
railroad is serving.

THE LISTING
When you see a  sign it means Inverse space. [The  signs weren't printed
in the listing; see lines 1500 & 1520. JimG] To obtain this type 8 in
INVERSE GRAPHICS mode. If you run this program on a 128, the cursor keys to
use are 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Between lines 9010 and 9029, the letters are to be entered in GRAPHIC mode.
All the machine code is part of the BASIC, so nothing else is required to
run the game.
This listing has been checked and rechecked so it should be perfect. So if
you do have a problem you should make sure you have entered correctly. If
you are still having problems you can telephone C+VG and we'll try and sort
it out for you.

