I noticed that no-one has ticked "average speed"!
I didn't either. Just "finished" playing Orient Express again. And the 30mph average Express speed is on that map is a goal I'm just not really interested in. It's fun delivering Meat to the Munching Monks, and the Orca is a fun (and slightly bonkers) addition to the loco roster: but really, I'm more interested in getting all the goods and passengers moving round the map, than in micro-managing moody, temperamental trains to make them marginally faster. The fact that the old migrated thread about that map suggests not even running trains until the final year says it all about that goal.
When I say I "finished", I mean that I got Silver, but saved the game just before the medal (so that I could still muck about with Events): and I've been playing for years since. RRT3 years, I mean...
Which brings me to my favourite goal: eliminating the competition. How can I control
everything for maximum efficiency, happiness (and profit) if there's some halfwit running part of the network?
Charging track access for his moronic, straight-line trestle-bridges across 200km of a river-confluence, which, to add insult to injury, block me from building a proper adult railway with stone bridges and some respect for the terrain. Making me get to his stations up a 10%, 16%, 18%, 22% gradient...
Clogging up my nice shiny rails with his dirty little consist-of-opportunity Stirlings (in 1900) hauling Alcohol for a profit they'll only realise in 1905, it's such a long journey. If they ever get there. Without breaking down 6 times.
I can't remember what my other votes were for. Just enjoyed a rant. </rant>