Railroad companies (UP, SP etc.) were heavily subsidized in the 19th century by federal land grants and loans.

Then there's the thousands of Chinese, Italians, Irish etc. immigrants who died during railroad construction because of unregulated working conditions.

i.e. these were plutocratic, not libertarian political conditions.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

-Alfred North Whitehead

Using short keyboard sequences gives you lots of operations that can easily become unconscious.