A bit of a let-down but still worth playing.
My fear with this game was that all the good ideas were used up in Railroad Tycoon 2. And it appears they were. Some of the missions are similar to a mission in RRT2. There is one mission that is almost identical.
The most pleasent suprise for me was that there is a scenario for southern ontario and surrounding area. As that is where I live.
On the Orient Express mission make sure to fulfill the requests made by the monks. First you have to connect to Zagreb. Then you need to find a way to get meat to Chisneau in the east. Once you do that a locomotive that looks like an Orca Whale becomes available.