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Re:Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway by gpvos on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:14PM (#48481229)
The infrastructure operators have to allow anyone with a train operating license on their tracks, and such license is very nontrivial to acquire.

Usually you would hire a train from a train operating company, and those companies are not required to rent out their trains - although several have been set up explicitly with that goal, of course.

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Re:Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway by mrlonglong on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:43PM (#48483147)
Back in Victorian times very rich people owned their own railway carriage which they would have hauled across country.
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Re:Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway by gpvos on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:11AM (#48487677)
Basically like it still is in the US.
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