Again, I have to preface my comments by saying I understand the town's attitude - even if I didn't agree with it.
The analogy to Stapleton doesn't hold. In the early years it's less a question of who come first, as BV and the RR (RR's in the early days) grew together and depended on each other. As time passed, however, that symbiosis between RR and community faded altogether, whereas Stapleton continued to serve and contribute economically to the very community that complained about it right up to the very end.
We could argue all day about who abandoned who, but there isn't much argument that a RR which once served the town had not done so for decades by the time of discontinuance.
Scott