Wooden Shoes & Iron Monsters (2006)

from Winsome Games:

"Wooden Shoes & Iron Monsters" is a Riding Series game by Han Heidema. WS&IM is set in the Netherlands and covers to history of the Dutch railroads from 1830 to 2006. WS&IM is for 3-5 players for about 2-3 hours. Players start railroads, capitalize them with shares of stock, build track from city to city, receive income and later merge smaller railroads into larger railroads. Prior games in this series include West Riding, Länderbahnen and Riding through England.