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Actually, in the U.S. at least, railroads did get lots of land grants, right-of-way rights, and similar subsidies from the government. So yeah.
Which is part of the reason I think it's a bad idea. The railroads constantly petitioned for those rights, that money and essentially leached off the American people. That's what rent seeking means.