Railway Companies Booming is one of the newspaper articles in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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CONSOLIDATION BRINGS FEARS OF MONOPOLY.
Gone is the New Austin Northern Railroad. Long forgotten is the Armadillo Express Railroad. Only the oldest among us remembers the Valentine Valley Railway. As each year passes, dozens of railway are formed, combine, and break up, the signs changed, the schedules printed anew, and the names are lost to history.
Since completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the number of companies has decreased, and travel by wagon and horse becomes less and less in fashion, with more people preferring the luxury of a sleeper car. Lawmakers are beginning to investigate whether the railway consolidation has resulted in creating regional monopolies that subject riders to hefty price increases.