The trick is finding drivers dumb enough to sit on the tracks.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

It's simple -- just put tracks everywhere.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

This was a solid strat in the original Sid Meier's Civilization, albeit not necessarily for antitank purposes.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Note that everywhere really meant everywhere: The game didn't actually check that you were trying to build (rail)roads on land.

So if your construction speed was fast enough it didn't matter.

Yes, but in the original the construction time for everything was one turn. (You selected the settler, gave the build order, selected the settler again, repeated the order, etc.)

You could also use this to move settlers very quickly along roads, (move two tiles, give build order, selected settler, move two more times, etc.)

Yes, taking advantage of how settlers fully reset their movement without losing that turn's build progress if you aborted a build order was an exploit. So was building ocean railroads for the extra trade.

The answer is, of course, obvious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfJ_KxSZVA