lame,
I cam across this via Google (bless it - just type in "Railroad Tycoon Deluxe" "Windows XP", the quotes are important)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cac...ng_en&ie=UTF-8
"You might want to try
http://dosbox.sf.net/ DosBox is "a PC emulator with builtin DOS for running DOS Games primarily". I've recently used it to replay Gateway, Gateway II, and Alone in the Dark on Linux, and a friend of mine has run the Windows XP port successfully. It sucks CPU cycles, but odds are if you've got a DOS-only game it didn't need many CPU cycles anyway. --- Roy Stogner
And in fact that works. It is harder to set up than you might expect in that the instructions aren't entirely clear, but RR Tycoon is now running on a Pentium 4 machine at reasonable speed, complete with sound!"
HTH
SD