it'd be cool to have industrial factions—like the modded settlers—have their settlements that are close enough to each other, spawn with railroads and trains already

i think for balance there should also be a bandit raid type of event with varying difficulty depending on colony wealth, most difficult will have them blow up a portion of a railroad

then a new starting scenario "Last train home" for royalty dlc, where you start with 5 deserter colonists hostile to the empire, a broken railroad, and a train that has one wood-fueled steam locomotive, a hopper, then a boxcar