Not Played

But here is some more information on it:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1448/freight-train

And it is available:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=freight+train+board+game&_sacat=0

ideas

These days Ticket To Ride is probably the most popular train-themed board game series. There are a lot of different versions/maps, each sold as a separate board game.

A difficulty will be that the game uses decks of different types of cards to introduce randomness and luck, so you'll have to devise some way of sharing each player's hands with them and only them, and you'll need a non-player moderator to handle the physical card decks and game pieces. 

The same games are available as on-line computer games with group play, but you'd have to buy them for each player.

An old classic is Rail Baron, if you can find an antique copy on ebay (and can afford it when you find it). I played it years ago, all I remember was liking it, not whether there are cards etc.

Southern Fast Freight

I have a game called Southern Fast Freight, which I think came from a yard sale over 30 years ago. It has sentimental value as a souvenir of my time in the US, but, to be honest, it is not the greatest board game. It almost feels like a marketing freebie for the Southern Railroad.

Best wishes 

Eric   

Ticket to ride

Ticket to Ride is a great set of board games (the US and Pennsylvania versions are our favorites), but I would think they would be very hard to translate into a physical layout simulation, since TTR is a 'system" level game covering a whole nation/region/state and not a train level game.

The Freight Train game appears to have been produced by the same "author" that does the "Ticket to Ride"series.

Tabletop Simulator enables on-line play of board games

There's a great product called "Tabletop Simulator" that provides a way for people to play traditional board games over the internet. Here's a link to info about the program and how to get it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/

Users can build their own on-line versions of board games or use ones that others have created and shared. Here's a link to "Ticket to Ride":

https://www.nexusmods.com/tabletopsimulator/mods/308

While I've not played TTR on TTS (how's that for TLAs? [Three Letter Acronym]) I have been sucked into several other board games by my kids. It's pretty easy to use.

Many years ago, probably in the 1960s, a friend of mine had a game from Avalon Hill named "Dispatcher." I've been thinking about trying to build that one for TTS. Here's a link about the original game which can be hard to find:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6759/dispatcher