Shuffle the 4 Turn Order cards and place one number-side-up in front of each player. She places everything near her player board. The remaining 2 workers are placed near the game board in a supply.Įach player receives 1 rouble from the supply.Įach player receives 1 Industry marker and places it on space 0 of the industry track.Įach player receives 7 different tokens, a second Industry marker, 1 Kiev Medal, and 1 Revaluation token.
It will be required for the last round of the game.Įach player selects a color and places the matching player board in front of herself.Įach player receives a #1 locomotive from the supply and places it on the appropriate space at the upper left of her player board.Įach player receives 3 black tracks from the supply and places them on the first space of each of the three railroads pictured on her player board.Įach player receives 5 workers in her color and places them before her. The Last Round marker is placed near the game board. (The engineers and the spaces they occupy have a distinctive form to help remind players which side should face up). Engineers placed vertically should be dark side up. Remove the remaining engineers from the game.Įngineers placed horizontally should be light side up. Place the top 3 engineers of the stack on the spaces marked. Place the top 4 engineers of the stack on the spaces marked. ( One engineer is not marked with a letter and should be placed on its matching 0 card along with a single rouble). Give each player 7 of the workers in their player color (1 worker of each color is returned to the box).įorm a Doubler token supply using the 20 Doubler tokens (called "doubler" for the remainder of this rulebook).įorm a supply with the 18 roubles (coins).įorm a track supply by sorting the 48 tracks so that they are grouped by color.įirst, sort the 15 engineers into El and E piles. Place the black worker on its matching card. Place the 2 turquoise workers on the area of the board displaying 2 turquoise workers. (One of the #9 locomotives has no purple backside and should be placed on its matching card). Sort them by number and place them so that they form 9 distinct piles as seen below. Place the 37 locomotives next to the board so that they are locomotive side up (the purple side will come up later). The 8 remaining cards form a face down pile. Shuffle the 10 End Bonus cards and remove two of them from the game without looking at them. Place the 100/200 and 300/400-point tokens near space 100 of the scoring track. Place the game board in the middle of the table.