{"id":255827,"date":"2022-08-12T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=topics&#038;p=255827"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:33:43","slug":"games-about-trains","status":"publish","type":"topics","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Games About Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once settlements grew into towns and communities, people needed a way to transport and trade goods. First came <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-set-along-rivers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the rivers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which were fine if you lived alongside one. If you were in the heartland of your country, you needed something designed to haul heavy loads over land. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the steam locomotive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steam locomotives came to Europe and the United States in the earliest part of the 1800s. Throughout the century, bigger, faster trains were designed, and the competition to build\/own those railway lines\u2014and control the major shipping hubs\u2014was fierce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds like the making of some great board games to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>NOTE<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: I\u2019m intentionally excluding the 250+ <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgamefamily\/19\/series-18xx\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18XX games<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here, as they would take up the entire list. <\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant steel behemoths, belching steam, and emitting a shrill scream as they race across the prairies. They must have been a sight to see for the first time. Now, you can see them on your gaming table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":255829,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"coauthors":[2466],"class_list":["post-255827","topics","type-topics","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Games About Trains &#8212; Meeple Mountain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-trains\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-trains\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Board Game Topics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Games About Trains\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Games About Trains &#8212; Meeple Mountain","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-trains\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-trains\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Board Game Topics","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Games About Trains"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topics"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255827"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=255827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}