RAIL Solution is a grassroots advocacy group with over 1200 individual participants and a coalition of allied organizations. We emphasize balanced transportation planning, with a leading role for railroads. The time has passed when every problem of congestion and growth can be solved with more lanes of highway. Proper, balanced transportation decisions are vital to preserving the natural environment, ensuring our quality of life, and providing sustainable economic opportunity for Virginia and the nation.

We promote railroads as a safe, clean, efficient carrier of freight and people, and this long-term vision — employ faster, upgraded rail service in concert with targeted highway improvements. This combination ensures the well-being of the citizens and benefits businesses across Tennessee and northern Alabama, Southwest Virginia, the Valley of Virginia, the Shenandoah, and in the Potomac Valley of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Maryland's Western Panhandle and Central Pennsylvania. Our transportation plan promotes public health and safety while preserving the financial, environmental, and cultural integrity of our homes, farms, businesses, and communities.

RAIL Solution offers a proposed pilot project to demonstrate the concept and advantages of the North American Steel Interstate System to the nation. The project would upgrade and utilize the Norfolk Southern railway--a segment of their Crescent Corridor--paralleling  the most truck dense interstate corridor in America--the I-40 Corridor from Memphis to Knoxville, TN, and continuing on the I-81 Corridor from it's terminus at I-40 just north of Knoxville to Harrisburg, PA.

This pilot project has garnered support from over 50 local governing and regional planning bodies in Virginia and Tennessee.