There's not much excitement here. Let's see if we can fix that.
Start by snipping some track that's on the ground.
Raise the land and reconnect the track. A nice little boost.
Let's do it again. We get a diminishing return. Raising just three land tiles is optimal.
Whoa! We're going the wrong way. Interesting - when you try the same trick over and over, the game catches on and nicks you.
We're back to four raised land tiles, and have added our paths over the track. Placing the path on the land tile makes the path less expensive to build.