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First PAUSE the game pressing pause key on your keyboard. Then find place on the map with around five towns/cities and make sure that at least 2 of them have 2 or more industry building (The best would be that their products are demanded in other city). Place like that is the best to start building your railroad empire. Build it while pause key is pressed. When you build railways and stations buy few trains select their cargo and than you can start game. As soon as you earn some money start expanding that railway to close cities. Later you can find another part of the map and as years passes you will connect all these parts in one big railroad net owned by your company.
I recommend you to chose in difficulty screen (on custom preferences) medium for stock market. Because than you will be able to take controlling package in other companies and if your company has enough money you can merge (buy) your competitors company. And than your competitor will have to start new company and that will slow him in enlarging his wealth. Also you can issue some stock and that will give you some money although price of stock of your company will fall a little. Also if you have stocks of other company you can sell bigger number of them and price of their stocks will fall. There is a lot more tricks to do on stock market but I'll leave it for another time.
Make sure that you don't have lot of trains on operating on same railway because then they will loose time and wait to enter to the station. Don't have lot of trains with express option on. Don't buy new train whenever you see that there is lot pieces of something in one station rather reconfigure trains you have to carry that. Because in later stages of game you could loose lot of money on fuel and for maintaining your trains because trains will just have to start then stop then wait and that eats money so soon they won't be profitable and you will start loosing your money.

Try this to get a quick start for your personal wealthin single player scenarios such as Britain.
Always PAUSE and SAVE game at start.
Start your new company with minimum personal cash but maximum from investors.
Immediately sell your own shares.
Raise Bonds and reduce dividends to zero.
Take time to examine map for the most profitable lines, probably passenger/mail at first.
Build stations, lay track, buy engines.
Use 6 cars per train set at 'all cargo full'.
Repeat until no money left.
Now hit the pause key to start the game rolling.
As soon as a rival company is set up, buy all the shares you can (on margin too).
When any of your trains start up, shadow them to their destination and stop them just short.
About October/November start remaining trains by changing the cargo setting.
No trains to reach destination in first year.
Year 2.
Your company records a big loss, investors are most unhappy, and the share price plummets.
Sell the shares you bought in the rival company.
Buy max shares in own company, cash and margin.
Raise dividend.
Now let your trains arrive.
Play normally for the next year.
Repay bond, and buy back shares if possible.
Year 3.
Investors happy, share price rises, looking good.
                                                                                       Dave

1. Set up a company with $100K of your own money and as much as the investors' money. However, instead
    of trying to make the company lose money in the first year, try to make as much profit as possible. Copy the
    way the AI set up a company. Run several trains between 2 cities to carry as much passengers and mail as
    possible. The logic is if the company make money stock price goes up. Stock price goes up then your 
    purchasing power goes up too. Use that extra power to buy your own shares.

2. Set your dividend as high as possible. By the next year, your stock price should be above the $100 range.
    All this while, you should always use your extra purchasing power to buy extra shares of your company.

3. In December in the second year, issue as much bonds as possible and use them to buy back shares.
    One point to remember is that as you buy back shares, your purchasing power goes up too. Don't forget to
    buy some for yourself. By the end of this year, your shares would have split.
4. In January in the third year, pause the game and start selling and destroying the company.
    (It exactly as mentioned in the tips section). You would end up with $1.5 - $2.5 million of cash.

5. Setup another company with $400K of your own money and $4 million of investos'. Make this company profitable too,
    so that you'd get a lot of dividend.

6. Use any money left to buy other companies' shares. Aim to get majority in those companies. Don't be afraid to buy 
    on margin.

7. During recession, attempt to merge. Pretty soon you'll wipe out all the other competitors.

                                                                                                                                          mercury

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