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Put the planning ideas into play.

Play Budget Express, a free five-station railroad planning game with fictional projects, quote comparisons, funding choices, and links to useful guides.

Red Columbia Basin Railroad locomotives pulling freight through rolling open country.
Columbia Basin Railroad freight at Schlomer, Washington, photographed in 2022. Photo: Jerry Huddleston · CC BY 2.0 · Image details
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Budget Express

Take a fictional project through five planning stations. Earn a freight car at each station and build a more complete project packet.

Choose from three missions. Read the evidence, spot missing scope, compare contractor offers, match technology to the job, and calculate the committed-funding gap.

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About five minutes · No account · No automatic saving

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Learn something you can use.

The game uses fictional projects and credits, with explanations linked to the same guides and tools you can use for real planning discussions. Your score reflects the game choices, not professional competence or the condition of any track.

There is no clock penalty. Read the documents, ask for clarification, use a hint, or review an answer and continue. Download your completion report as an Excel-compatible CSV or print it to PDF.