Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser s filling the British countryside with railroads and smoke in train tycoon sim, Mashinky.>

Disaster! I d barely begun my first foray into Mashinky s magical world of locomotives when my very first attempt to manage a whopping two whole trains — carriages and all — ended in calamity and death. And also fire. My brand new steam engine had just left the depot near Leicester and was beginning its journey to Kirkcaldy when it rather unexpectedly collided with the only other train in the world. All that was left was a smoking, smouldering wreck. That s what signals are for, I realised too late.

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