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I downloaded all five new Game Pass games (I'm most excited about Rage 2), but I never left Railway Empire to check them out and neither did my friend Mark, who was also playing Railway Empire. 

I finished chapter one and two of five. The campaign mode tells the story of the connecting of the U.S. coasts by rail. You begin in the midwest and then go to the east coast and then to the Mississippi region. There's still the south and west to do. I'm in the third chapter building the first bridge across the Mississippi. 

I finally figured out how to build a straight parallel section of railway next to a main route. This is so trains can pass each other. It's taken me a while to notice the tiny text that gives you the clues as to how to do this. Up until now, I've been building these wide curving tracks. It costs more and is somtimes impossible because of the terrain. 

I'm getting a handle on signals too. These enable trains to stop so they don't hit each other. I got the directional signals down, but I still don't understand how to use stop signals. I think they are placed so trains going the same direction on the same route don't catch upto each other and crash. 

One fun moment was when, after creating a maze of routes with trains picking up supplies all over the map, I built an express train between two distant cities and rode it in first-person. You can see a realistic landscape and all the bridges and crossing railway lines along the way. It's really cool. 

I'm hooked. It's trains for the forseeable future for me.