I loved this scenario! Thanks so much. Really one of my favourites of all time. Extremely simple, no frills and events, but well-thought through goals that make this a complete, and complex game to play. I've one improvement suggestion:
PNW is always a bit of a random goal, since it varies so much with the economic cycle. I thought I was doing well, but wasn't too sure of making it and then the economy boomed, and bang, the gold medal came with it. A bit anticlimactic. PNW is great when you can buy on margin, making stock trade tricky because of the possibility of margin calls. In this case it makes less sense. You just buy whatever stock you can afford and hope it's enough. I would therefore suggest to change the PNW goal to a player cash requirement. I guess it should be a bit lower, since you would have to sell lots of stock and that brings the price down. Maybe $60M, or even $50M. But it would force players to think ahead, and anticipate the economic cycle instead of just waiting for it to boom (or not...).
A few minor points I ran into:
* I hauled 2000 of rock, but never got the bonus. I came close to really needing it so I felt a bit cheated. I did wait to see if it might be pauid in 1930, at the deadline, but nothing.
* There were some frustrating moments in the beginning, when I saved the exact amount to buy a share, but just couldn't click "buy". I tri-le checked. I really had $69 while the price, both in the stock ledger and next to the graph, was $69. At other times I found I could run a small deficit of -$2 or something.
* The number of track miles laid counts
backwards when you double an existing single track. I had to wait untill at had the 5000 miles bonus to double the track, causing serious congestion.
I wouldn't know how to sort these out. Maybe it's just that my rt3 runs a bit buggy. But it didn't dent the great fun I had playing this.
joost