Wish I had baught the prequil first!
Two years later I baught Railroad Tycoon III on Steam for around £10 its from the same maker as Railroads. The much older Railroad Tycoon III hs everything and massive scale and it has more menus and bits to fiddle around with than Railroads.
Compared to The older game Railroads is a chopped down simplified game thats more suited to casual gamers and the younger generation and has better graphics. The very small size of the maps kills the game play.
If you want a serious business stratagy game with building and lots of business decisions and an acurate representation of the rail road industry and huge geography then buy railroad Tycoon III for me Railroads got old in a few months its just too watered down and tiny and I baught Railroads before I baught the Railroad Tycoon III so that says alot about bad decisions made when they made Railroads.