>>10241631. Go back to Phase I paint job because Phase IV is garbage.
2. Scrap Amfleet, Superliner, Acela, and P42s and replace them with A E S T H E T I C modern version of the Streamliners of the old Heritage fleet. Complete with bulldog nosed E-units and dome/tavern cars.
3. Buy/build more track. Especially high-speed rated track, which is probably one of the leading causes of slow trains (the GE Genesis)
4. Strike up deal with the governments of major cities and crooked real estate developers to reopen or rebuild closed down terminal stations (Norfolk Terminal for example) in exchange for retail rights to turn them into glorified malls (like they do with airports) and ditch the cheap tiny, stations that were built in the 70s.
5. Extend service into Mexico and Canada (Mexico in particular, has had a virtually non-existent passenger rail service since 1994 when Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México shut down) providing the only way for Mexicans to sneak into the United States since Donald Trump's wall only opens for the occasional train.
6. Carry the CIA's drug shipments across the border on said trains at outrageous prices to pay for all the mentioned above.
7. Bribe politicians into sabotaging highway repair bills to make rail travel more appeasing with the appalling increase in road accidents.
8. Do the same with airline regulations
9. Privatize everything and resell it to Class I railroads.