re: #92 Anymouse 🌹

Although in real life railroads were granted their land by the government, and granted a checkerboard pattern of sections of land on opposite sides of the right-of-way they could use or sell.

Trans-continental railroads in the USA were a massive government-funded project.

The U.S. Army also provided security, at no cost to the railroad company, since we were building through what was still Indian territory.