Fifty-one stops: the Deluxe map
Deluxe kept one stop for every state plus Washington, D.C., but sent the chase to a different city in 22 of them.
Same count, new stops
Like the 1986 game, Deluxe has one stop per state plus Washington, D.C., 51 in all. The Windows build's location table lists them in alphabetical order of state, from Birmingham, Alabama to Cheyenne, Wyoming, with D.C. filed between Washington and West Virginia. Lay that list beside the 1986 data and 22 of the 51 cities have changed.
Who moved where
The swaps don't run in one direction. Twelve state capitals gave way to other cities: Montgomery to Birmingham, Hartford to New Haven, Topeka to Wichita, Helena to Billings, Santa Fe to Albuquerque, Raleigh to Charlotte, Bismarck to Fargo, Columbus to Cleveland, Pierre to Sioux Falls, Nashville to Memphis, Montpelier to Burlington and Madison to Milwaukee. Five went the other way, into a capital: Anchorage to Juneau, San Francisco to Sacramento, Omaha to Lincoln, Tulsa to Oklahoma City, and Charleston to Columbia in South Carolina. The last five simply swapped one city for another: Miami to Jacksonville, Las Vegas to Reno, Atlantic City to Newark, Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and San Antonio to Houston. Twenty-nine stops stayed put, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle among them.
Getting there
Travel goes through ACME's travel desk, which books a seat or a rental car (details at working a Deluxe case). The map is no longer a flat board either: Wikipedia and archive.org's catalogue both describe a zoom that takes the player in to a single state's terrain. The homework didn't go away. The Osher Map Library's boxed floppy edition still includes a copy of Fodor's USA.
Who you meet
The location table also carries 51 witness occupations, one per stop and in the same order, running from Carpenter to Rancher. Some are regional casting you could guess blindfold (Surfer, Orange Grower, Peanut Farmer, Casino Dealer, Syrup Maker, Coal Miner); others are people with ordinary jobs (Plumber, Insurance Agent, Window Washer, Bus Driver); and one is a Paleontologist. The list is the same in the 1993 DOS CD's data and the Windows build.
What a stop shows
On the CD versions every location has two captioned photographs, a topographic map of its state and its own regional music, all browsable in the Source Information program (see sixty-three songs, 102 photographs). The clue writing is pun-heavy, which suits a game whose crooks are called Mae Hemm and Dee Molish. One line in the DOS CD's clue file has a suspect who “went to the steel mills in Birmingham because” they “thought it was a steal mill.”