Here be all the investors. It seems I own 1/6th of the company's stocks.
A major way of the player earning is the dividends. How much cash they distribute per stock. If I understand this correctly. It can be set in a wide range, it was on $0,08. Maybe I'll raise it more depending how much cash reserve the company has yearly. The dividends cannot be raised over a certain number, the game says the board of execs are complaining.
Regulating how many shares the player has can be helped out by the option to buy back shares from the company's money!
All this shit means little in this scenario. If there were competing AI players, then fuck with these would be mandatory, to maximize earning, reach 51% ownership in shares of the company, then buying up the shares of the competition, then later merge their companies with yours. Otherwise they will be in the way of expansion.
Now that I'm thinking at the beginning I could have get by with 900K starting money instead of 1,1 mil, which would meant 200K less from investors, which would meant starting out with larger share in shares.
This book is very useful. We can inspect the balance sheet, total and yearly.
Comparing 1851 with 1852: some rise in passengers, but considerable rise in freight. Investing in the stations (I think I developed somewhat the others too) was also bears its fruit.
Not sure about the Miscellaneous - not in the Revenues, neither at the Expenses.

Btw if you click on the whistle... it whistles.