It has been long overdue to revolutionize heavy freight transport in America. There is a need for a double gauge, high speed freight system. Double the width and half the length with a lower center of gravity and freight speeds over 150 mph that have modernized switching and no surface traffic interaction, either by routing traffic over or under the rail crossings. It would cost billions to implement but the increase in efficiency and the added military utility would be worth so much for our defense. Scores of lives would be saved by eliminating truck freight on highways not to mention decongesting traffic. Millions of new railroad jobs would offset any losses in trucking. Why are we using rail gauges that were based off the Roman system of road width a thousand years later? Imagine being able to dispatch freight and military assets from the East coast to the West in 18 hours. Hey invading Chinese army, surprise we just moved entire divisions from one coast to another in a day. Furthermore, if our debt has been stacked up with the intention of the economy growing to the levels needed to service $25 trillion, we have to plan our infrastructure so that growth is possible.