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Wow, how fun! I will give you all the basics of my objectives here sans many details account I don't want to write a novel! For starters, I would immediately cut my salary to the basic level as that in the labor crafts. Then immediately do the same for all of the vice presidents and assistant vice presidents. I would have a Zero Tolerance policy set for egotistical and arrogant employees and only recruit and retain those with positive can do attitudes. My first two long term projects would be decreasing liabilities, increasing train speeds and drastically cutting terminal dwell times in yards. Decreasing the liabilities: I would have all the scrap/old rail/ties and other previously used derbis etc. hauled off of the railroad and then clear the entire railroad property lines of brush and vegetation. As this was progressing I would spend millions on new overpasses and underpasses of highway-rail grade crossings with total elimination being the ultimate goal. I would invest in heavy duty fencing along potential and previous trespassing areas. I would hire a huge force of railroad police officers along iwth starting a "RailWatch" program to encourage railfans to report suspicious activities along with initiating a ride-along program so those interested could experience railroading up close and personal. With the additional cleared right-of-way I would construct coal slurry pipelines along principal coal corridors to eliminate some of the standard coal traffic over the railroad as coal traffic beats the heck out of the physical plant. In addition I would also fund further study of magnetic levitation trains and dedicate right-of-way along adjacent rail lines between applicable city pairs. As the liabilities began to decrease I would bring in the engineering folks and add route capacity to the maximum extent possible as in lengthening sidings and massive amounts of double or multiple track territory. This would also include adding more yards along the system - specifically hump yards. For mountainous terrain of western Canada I would spend billions to tunnel under the Rockies in a similiar manner done in the Swiss Alps. I would then fund and challege rail industry designers to come up with a heavy-duty strength durable high speed freight truck that could sustain 90mph running. I would also fund development of a coal powered locomotive capable of high horsepower output with the latest tier emissions standards encompassed. With sealed corridors with no highway-rail grade crossings, increased trackage, cars retrofitted with high speed trucks, new generation coal burning locomotives and moving coal in a pipeline it would make for a very fast railroad that would not compete with trucks - it would simply outrun them and ultimately spend less doing so over time. Yeah, certainly a tremendous long shot for any fruits of labor like those listed above, but nonetheless it never hurts to dream!
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