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Not quite sure if this is the place for this comment, but here goes.

It seems odd that you have to build through the range of railways in a province in order to reach your current level. For example, if you are technically able to build level 3 railways, why would you bother to build level 1 then level 2 etc. Railways are something that you build to your best ability, not your worst!

There seems no reason to start building experimental railways in a province in 1900 just because it didn't have railways before. You could say that the first railways built in a province should get, say, a 50% extra cost penalty (to represent landscaping and laying rail beds etc), but the first railways laid should always be the best technology level you can manage.
 
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Perhaps it helps to view levels as the amount of rail systems in that province? Both when it comes to track density and to rail management and support infrastructure?

Being able to build huge railsystems doesn't mean that you don't have to start from scratch in places that have had no previous rail in place.

That said, I agree, it should be possible to say "expand my railroad in this province to the max level I can build", perhaps even "expand my rail in all the provinces in this state to the max level I can build".

:) Rafiki
 
Yes, I can see an argument that higher level railways are not simply more efficient track and engines, but represent overall infrastructure and connections / density etc. However, this is not what is implied by the in-game description (I don't think anyway). Whilst this explanation would make sense for the increasing density of European railways in the 19th century, I don't know if it explains running equally high level tech (but more sparsely laid out) railways across, say, western USA. Are we then saying that the same technology railway engines have a different effective performance based on where they are being used? In the game, its the engine symbol that changes when you increase railway level.
 
I think this is working as designed - its only the descriptions that are a bit confusing. If we just called them level 1, 2, 3....etc is there a problem. If thats the only problem then I think its a WON'T FIX