RAILROAD CAR SWITCHING GAME

A railroad car switching game played on a board having a pair of incoming tracks and a pair of outgoing tracks formed thereon, these two pairs of tracks being separated at their inner ends by a bridge zone on which a pair of car receiving and conveying bridges are shiftably positioned. A plurality of classification track segments on opposite sides of the bridge zone serve to receive and store movable car members from the shiftable bridges in the process of shifting cars onto and off of the bridges to classify the two incoming trains and to make up a pair of outbound trains on the outgoing tracks. The objective of the game is to classify the two incoming trains and to make up a pair of outbound trains in a minimum number of moves of a bridge member.