| BLACKWATER STATION : PEOPLE and COMPANIES |
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| Site Personal | |
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| Chris Lawson | Site Maintainer, Gamekit Producer (1841, 1849, 1851,
1876 & 1899) Designer of 1851 with Mark Derrick |
| Steve Thomas | Resident 18xx guru |
| David Metheny | Was editor of The Rail Gamer, and US Agent for games produced by Chris Lawson |
| Stuart Dagger | Editor of Counter, Boardgames Magazine |
| Keith Thomasson | Keeper of the 18xx Rules Difference List |
| Game Designers | |
| Francis Tresham | Designer of 1829, 1853 and 1825 |
| Federico Vellani | Designer of 1841, 1849, 1827 and 1827 Jr. |
| David Hecht | Designer of 1826, 1836, 18EU, 18FL, 18Scan, and 18VA |
| Wolfram Janich | Owner of Marflow Games.
Designer and producer of 1842, 1847, 18EC, and 18SX Producer of German language editions of 18AL and 18VA |
| Leonhard Orgler | Designer and producer of 1837 and 1854 |
| Michael Brünker | Designer of 1898 |
| Helmut Ohley | Designer of 1862 Producer of 1824, 1844, 1862, 1895, 18FR, and 18NL |
| Rob van Wijngaarden | Designer of 1839 |
| Mark Derrick | Designer of 18GA, 18AL, and 18MEX |
| Bill Dixon | Designer of 1856, 1870, 1832, 1850 and 1869 |
| Tom Lehmann | Co-Designer of 2038 and Designer of 1834 and 1846 |
| Carl Burger | Designer of 1831 |
| Yasutaka Ikeda | Designer of 1889 |
| Game Companies | |
| Tresham Games | Producer of 1825 and 1853 |
| Avalon Hill | Producer of 1830 |
| Mayfair | Producer of 1856 and 1870 |
| Hans im Glück | Producer of 1835 |
| TimJim/Prism | Producer of 2038 |
| Winsome Games | Soon to be producer of 1831? |
| John Galt | Producer of 18AL and 18GA Assistant Keeper of Blackwater Station |
| John A. Tamplin | Owner of Deep Thought Games, LLC. Producer of 1826, 1832, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1889, 18EU, 18FL, 18GL, 18MEX, 18Scan, and 18VA |
| Game Magazines | |
| The Rail Gamer | The Magazine for Train Gaming Enthusiasts |
| Counter | The Magazine for Game Enthusiasts |
| TGG | The Magazine from the Train Gamer's Association |
| PBM and PBeM and other Contacts | |
| Cut and Thrust | 18xx Play By Mail Fanzine |
| Ode | 18xx Play By Mail Fanzine |
| Bill Stoll | 18xx Play By eMail, Mostly 1835 |
| Designer and producer of 1898. This is an 1841 variant set in France which has a number of changes and improvements to the original. |
| Deceased. Designer of 1831. Plans are that one day this will be produced by Winsome Games. |
| Editor of Counter. A new Boardgame magazine, Counter gives you reviews, letters, reports and general chat about the hobby. |
| Designer of 18GA, 18AL, and 18MEX. His 18TN also helped create 1851. |
| Designer of 1832, 1850, 1856, and 1870, plus 1869 (still in the design stage). |
| Designer of 1826, 18EU, 18FL, 18Scan, and 18VA. One of the more well travelled 18xx designers, David has been spotted playtesting his new games in the US, Italy and now in the UK. David has more designs under way, including 1836. |
| Has designed and produced five gamekits, 1842 Hbg, 1847 Pfalz, 18SX Saxony, 18NL Nederland (now available from Helmut Ohley), and most recently 18EC (USA East Coast). Also publishes German language versions of 18AL Alabama and 18VA Virginia. |
| Producer of a series of gamekits (1826, 1841, 1849,
1851, 1876 & 1899). Current plans include the design of 1852 and
several more new 18xx games. Site maintainer of Blackwater Station so
clearly a man with too much time on his hands.
(The preceding was written in 2003, so apparently he doesn't have that much time any longer. Has not produced any games since then. -- jdg) |
| President of Prism Games, who
along with TimJim Games produced 2038. Co-designer of 2038 (with Jim
Hlavaty of TimJim). Designer and developer of several games, currently
working on 1834, 1846 and a 2038 expansion kit.
As of July 2003, TimJim/Prism's web site is down and the companies have apparently ceased to operate, thus making 2038 unavailable. No word on what will become of their games. |
| Editor of the now defunct magazine called The Rail Gamer. David announced on Jan 4 2005 that the magazine and other merchandise are no longer available from him. (I am not sure whether this includes Chris Lawson's gamekits, but Chris has not produced any since 2003 anyway; David was Chris's US agent up to then. -- jdg) |
| Designer and producer of 1862, set on a map of the
USA and Canada. Also produces 1824 Austria-Hungary, 1844 Switzerland, 1895 Namibia, 18FR France, and 18NL Netherlands. |
| Designer and producer of one of the largest 18xx games / gamekit around. 1837 and 1854 are still available from Leonhard. Please note new web site. |
| Leading 18xx guru - if you have
any rules queries or questions then just ask Steve. He also moderates games of 18xx played by snail mail in the amateur magazines Cut and Thrust and Ode and produces his own PBM zine Mais n'est-ce pas la gare. |
| The man who started it all with 1829, went on to co-design 1830 with Bruce Shelley of Avalon Hill. Also responsible for 1853, 1825, Civilisation, Spanish Main, etc. |
| Designer and producer of 1839. This game had a extremely small original print run but the designers hope that it will be taken up by a European games company. Note: No address given as Rob has recently moved, also new web page address. |
| One of the most innovative 18xx designers around. Credits include 1841 and 1849, currently working on 1827, 1827 Jr and now 1833. Note: new email address from March 1998 |
| Original publisher of 1829, 1853, and 1825. Now owned by MicroProse who are in turn owned by Hasbro. |
| Francis Tresham's game company that emerged from the buy out of Hartland Trefoil by MicroProse. |
| AH produced the classic 1830 board game as well as a computer game version. AH are now owned by Hasbro. |
| US importer of 1825, 1835, and 1853. Past publisher of 1856 and 1870. Now owned by Iron Crown Enterprises. Have been noticeably slow to publish new games, both before and after the takeover by ICE. Rumor has it they are no longer licensed by Hasbro to produce 18xx games. |
| Producer of many high quality board games such as Modern Art, El Grande and Euphrates & Tigris, they also produce 1835. |
| Prism Games along with TimJim Games produced 2038. Both companies are now out of business. |
| Producer of a large range of Railroad Games such as the Trainsport: series, the Rails to ... series, U.S. Rails, Ferrocarriles Pampas, etc, etc. No 18xx at the moment, maybe 1831? |
| Producer of 18AL and 18GA. Also helps maintain the Blackwater Station site, and maintains a mirror at http://www.diogenes.sacramento.ca.us/18xx_net/. |
| Producer of 1826 (France/Belgium), 1832 (southeast US), 1846 (US Midwest), 1850 (north central US), 1854 (Austria), 1889 (Shikoku), 18EU (Europe), 18FL (Florida), 18GL (Great Lakes), 18MEX (Mexico), 18Scan (Scandinavia), and 18VA (Virginia/Maryland). 1826, 1854, and 1889 are second editions, while the other nine are previously unpublished. The games may be ordered in various levels of readiness for play, ranging all the way up to fully cut out and ready to play. His production values are roughly equivalent to Chris Lawson's, with a fully laminated and cut out game being the equivalent of one of Chris' "Platinum Kits." |
| Designer of 1889 (Shikoku). |
| Counter is a quarterly magazine for those interested in board and card game systems, their discussion and design. |
| RIP. David Metheny announced on Jan 4 2005 that the magazine and other merchandise are no longer available from him. Anyone wishing reprints of articles published in Rail Gamer must contact the authors. |
| RIP, Mike is now writing for GGG. |
| Members of the TGA also receive a quarterly magazine called the Train Gamer's Gazette. For full details please visit their web site (link updated August 2002). |
| 18xx Zines. The latter two 'zines run loads of other games including Diplomacy, Railway Rivals, Outpost, etc. Contact the editors for a subscription, though if you're primarily interested in 18xx it would be best to contact Steve Thomas in the first instance. |
| Home of the Mostly 1835 PBeM site. As you may deduce from the web page title, Bill hosts a number of 1835 PBeM games. |
| Keeper of the 18XX Rules Difference List, originally written by Nick Wedd. |
| Please do not send any gamekit orders to
David Reed as he is no longer Chris Lawson's US agent. If you have, then
please phone or write to him now and ask him to return your cheque or
cash immediately. Email response is very intermittent as well.
David maintained an 18xx web site called The Depot until he left the hobby in 1997. There may still be copies of it around on the Internet, but it hasn't been updated since then and is regarded as a dead site. |
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