Re: [Rails-users] Permitted token placement in an upgraded NY hex with two cities but rail connection with only one city

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

Chip Welch wrote:
> I have a rules question that arose in an 1830 rails game I am playing. A
> friend had an existing line connected to the northern city in the NYC
> Hex but no connection to the southern city in the Hex. He upgraded it to
> a brown Hex with two spaces for tokens, but instead of placing his token
> in the northern NY city that was connected to his line, he placed the
> token in the southern NY city in the same hex even though there is no
> rail line connection to his existing lines. Rails allowed this token
> placement. He said that Rails offered him the option to place the token
> in either city, even though he had no rail connection to the other city.
> Is that token placement permitted under the rules?

Absolutely not.