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The Train Rush

The Train Rush

A short format podcast, running 30-45 minutes, where we discuss a single train game we played in the preceding fortnight. Rich descriptions, zen reflections and meandering musings often feat...

Episodes

20 of 33 episodes

S04E04 - The Tracks of My Tears - 18 India

Joe spent a delightful afternoon in 2014 visiting an ashram and Craig recently devoted a productive hour to digesting the canon of Western p...

2:22:42May 6, 2025

S05E01 - Driving Home for Christmas - Santa Claus Takes the Intercity

There's a world outside your window and it's a world of dread and fear. Joe and Craig delve into the archives of the Central Office of Infor...

0:59:58Dec 22, 2024

S04E02 - 9 Lives - Erie Railroad

A year ago, the mighty duo of Craig Taylor and Joe Reese were barely known outside of a small handful of enthusiasts for hard-to-acquire tra...

1:42:46Dec 14, 2023

S04E01 - Station to Station - We Are Hungry Men - Part C

Following the most mundane of years, Craig and Joe sally forth from the Train Shed, seeking a new purpose in the harsh terrain of the Harz m...

1:03:57May 9, 2023

S04E01 - Station to Station - We Are Hungry Men - Part B

Following the most mundane of years, Craig and Joe sally forth from the Train Shed, seeking a new purpose in the harsh terrain of the Harz m...

0:52:15May 9, 2023

S04E01 - Station to Station - We Are Hungry Men - Part A

Following the most mundane of years, Craig and Joe sally forth from the Train Shed, seeking a new purpose in the harsh terrain of the Harz m...

1:10:50May 9, 2023

S3E02 - 18[space]Wheel[space]Tapping[period]

Craig and Joe exclusively cover the secret forthcoming 2023 game, 18 [space] Wheel [space] Tapping [period]

0:00:34Aug 26, 2022

S03E01 - Frontier Psychiatrist - Colorado Midland

Two hard men forge a path together in the Colorado Rockies to leave a life they can’t remember whilst playing a game they can’t forget. 0:00...

2:06:00Apr 17, 2022

S02E10 - An Imitation of Life - What Price Originality?

Once again, Joe finds himself in a pique of rage, having identified Craig’s plagiarised contributions towards The Train Rush’s topic-based e...

1:26:25Sep 13, 2021

S02E09 - Tragedy Looper - Union Station

In a potential historical future-past time-stripe that certainly might definitely happen maybe, Craig and Joe will discussed their experienc...

1:02:10Jun 26, 2021

S02E08 - Charmless Man - 18MAN

In a true act of heroism, Craig & Joe play a game few enough times to not suck all the joy out of it. Truly, a wide-eyed and naive Golden Ag...

0:45:38Mar 16, 2021

S02E07 - From Russia With Love - Trans Siberian Railroad

Christmas Movie Pitch Meeting--- An empath and a psychopath discuss their experience of a recent murder on a westbound train from Moscow to...

1:34:53Dec 24, 2020

S02E06 - Slow Train Coming - 1836jr

Craig and Joe provide CRUDE ANALYSIS containing CRUDE WORDS from a CRUDE COUNTRY. 1836 ANYTHING BUT SUITABLE FOR JUNIORS Seriously… You have...

1:26:59Oct 29, 2020

S02E05 - A Reply to Game Brain - House of Fun

Welcome to the House of Fun Now Steam’s Come of Age Welcome to the House of Fun Bankruptcy’s on his way Welcome to the House of Fun I’m sorr...

0:46:45Oct 1, 2020

S02E04 - One Way Ticket - Ride the Rails

This is your last chance. A one way ticket. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue share—the story ends, you wake up in you...

1:38:49Sep 2, 2020

S02E03- Never Gonna Give You Up - AesthetiXX in 18XX

Awakening from hibernation, with the physique of a slumbering Kraken and the intellect of a dozing minnow, Craig surfaces some loosely organ...

1:12:16Jul 31, 2020

S02E02 - 18NewEngland - I'm not looking for a new England

In a country ridden by unrelenting political chaos, Dave and Craig attempt to escape to Scott Petersen’s England. A brave ‘New’ England… Fea...

1:12:39Nov 7, 2019

S02E01 - 1834 - Belgian Waffle

Dave & Craig describe and discuss the 2018 Winsome 18xx, 1834 designed by , set in the chocolatier nation state of Europe, Belgium. Should y...

0:43:16Aug 6, 2019

S01E13 - Interview: Gavan Brown - China In Your Hand

As the next part of our entirely orchestrated and ‘not at all coincidental or fortuitous’ interview series, Craig Taylor interviews Gavan Br...

0:47:39Jun 11, 2019

S01E12 - Interview: Scott Petersen - Chesapeakes and Troughs

Just in time to help you decide whether or not to convert that Kickstarter 'watch' into a pledge, Dave and Craig chat to Scott Petersen, the...

0:53:06May 15, 2019