[amtrak-official]

Playing Openttd tonight, where should I build up a train company?

The Bay Area

Chicago

Seattle

The Northeast

SoCal

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[amtrak-official]

Chicago Map

Northeast

Bay Area

[zell2036-deactivated20240603]

Northeast feels like the only one that'd be fun to play- there's some space up there, and you can access a lot of NYC without tearing down any buildings, plus you can use boats OR completely ignore them. Ideal

• Chicago is so small! Is this a whole-country map and you're just picking a starting point?
• San Francisco is so built up that it feels like any trains would need to be so far outside the city that they wouldn't have any coverage. It's nearly bus-only

[amtrak-official]

This is all on an edited version of the US+Canada Scenario where I added in more cities, but yeah I think you are right that the Northeast is the best place to start