# Monopoly...Reading Railroad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238 "2024-06-23T20:00:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/41 "2024-06-25T03:17:35Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I still have a useable version of Risk, but I can always win. Rarely even a challenge. Back in the early 90’s, we became bored beating the lame Risk AI. We made the game more challenging by having all computer players the same color. It made it a little more challenging not knowing which player controlled which spaces, but we still won 90% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/42 "2024-06-25T06:02:55Z")
Don’t you know me? I’m your native son! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/43 "2024-06-25T06:15:25Z")
So _you’re_ the train they call The City of New Orleans! I bet you go five hundred miles before the day is done. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/44 "2024-06-25T06:31:55Z")
No no, _I will walk 500 miles…and I will walk 500 more…_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/45 "2024-06-25T06:57:30Z")
That does it, @Beckdawrek ! I’m leaving on the midnight train to Georgia! Heck, I’d rather live in her world than live without her in mine. (Different girl than the one who caught the Katy, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/46 "2024-06-25T07:28:12Z")
I’m on the last train Clarksville, anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/47 "2024-06-25T07:35:01Z")
Last train to Clarksville? Hey, I’ll meet you at the station! I’ll be there by four-thirty, if you made your reservation! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/48 "2024-06-25T07:47:34Z")
Don’t go ridin’ on that long black train… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/49 "2024-06-25T08:54:48Z")
That’s a darn shame about Ms Lucy losing her home and her family and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/50 "2024-06-25T12:15:48Z")
Don’t you know that it’s time to get on board? And let this train keep on riding, riding on through. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/51 "2024-06-25T13:43:25Z")
🎶 Some folks say that the Dummy don’t run, come let me tell you what the Dummy’s done… 🎶 ~ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/52 "2024-06-25T15:42:46Z")
Look at me, I’m a train on a track I’m a train, I’m a train, I’m a chucka train, yeah Look at me, got a load on my back I’m a train, I’m a train, I’m a chucka train, yeah ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/53 "2024-06-25T16:09:17Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Ooh, be careful, lest the kerfuffle escalate into a contretemps, fracas, or the dreaded donnybrook. I had to go to [Donnybrook](https://maps.app.goo.gl/CDwWYAKxvxmQpyG77), I mean, not because I had a reason to go there, but it was more-or-less along the way to where I was going, so, how could I not? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/54 "2024-06-25T20:04:16Z")
Oh great! I’ve just been informed a _Deluxe, special edition colors, lighted balls Pickleball_ set has been ordered. Kill me now! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/55 "2024-06-25T23:51:18Z")
I don’t know about no trains but the first weekend of every June they have a WWII weekend at Reading Airport. Tons of old warbirds flying and on static display. Its over an hour away but I’ve always known how to pronounce it. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/56 "2024-06-26T00:31:56Z")
You could always catch the train to Morrow… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JEilPR1PXko/hqdefault.jpg "To Morrow") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEilPR1PXko) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/57 "2024-06-26T03:10:19Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > all of them are landed on frequently in the aggregate, at $200 per, if you have all four, with no cost of development Is it prohibited, though? What if you put hotels on the railroads? Could you do that? I mean, it makes sense (inasmuch as the hotels are not actually on the tracks any more than the hotels are not literally in the middle of the street in Park Place). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/58 "2024-06-26T03:12:30Z")
Yeah. My baby brother tried that trick. He got beat up for his impudence. (By older brother) ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/59 "2024-06-26T03:30:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Heck, I’d rather live in her world than live without her in mine. Was she a railroad lady, just a little bit shady, spending her days on a train? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-reading-railroad/1003238/60 "2024-06-26T05:08:03Z")
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