My family and a friend only just played it once so far and the game is lots of fun.  It's great to have a game with no dice, not two long, and requires some strategic decisions/choices.  My only issue was with the directions in which it was not initially obvious that you are supposed to discard your cards (into a future recycle stack) once you claim a train route, or maybe I was just having a brain glitch.  Anyway, its a great game and my kids really want to play it again tonight (even though they lost to the friend the first time!)