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Establish local service to and from each of the capital cities in each of the 48 states. Provide for at least a 100 mile radius service for commuters at a good daily rate. The NEC needs to be duplicated asap between partner cities or regions that support high speed rail. One area might be Little Rock/Memphis/Nashville etc. Buy up the rails to trails and examine the ROW's for potential rehabilitation for improved service. Build dedicated high speed trackage free from lumbering freight trains. Elevate trackage to european standards to preserve farmland and eliminate grade crossing accidents. Add trains and increase sleeper service between cities 300 miles apart. Run them as dedicated trains while preserving the true long distance trains with higher level service. Train, equipt and pay the staff good wages for the service they provide to the passengers. Hold them to standards that are expected of aircrew. Make good service availible similar to the old "Pullman" of days gone by. Remove Chicago as the one area all trains must travel. For example If I wanted to travel to DC from Little Rock by rail; a day to chicago and then a second day to DC does not cut it at coach fare. no way. Get the durn thing expanded, upgraded and improved outside in the USA. Dont sit there in the board room. Make it work and eat the initial costs. Everyone has been saying it's dead, dying or near dead these last 30 years. So, prove em wrong. Find the capital, discharge the patient from the nursing home and start proving the naysayers wrong or go home. Finally, get highspeed rail into the rest of the USA. Make it fast enough to outrun airlines in regional service. Currently I can get from Little Rock to Baltimore very very fast for a few hundred dollars by air. Not 2 days via chicago and twice the rate for one way. I recognize that there are immense barriers from property owners and zoning in the east, but out west, there are oodles of room for like... Las Vegas to Barstow, LA for example.
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