To 'steveb' *LINK* *PIC*

Mr. B,
Right you may be B, but even in the midst of typing your statement, you have got to realize the best of all options would be for cooler heads to prevail and for CHS to find agreeable middle ground with GLR. CHS seems to make the rules fit for their own purpose as they go, and it would be best for everybody, including Railstar, for CHS to reconsider.
It's hard to make the right calls when all the people are not being direct and straight, and the rules change constantly. If CHS would make the slightest compromise, I believe that GLR would anxiously return to work out an agreement. There could be such a simple win-win-win situation here, but this is about people not being mature enough to find a way to get along. If some of the individuals in this matter were to be removed from this equation, the pure logic sense of this would point towards finding a way to continue a continually improving operation, not starting over from scratch.
With a return to mutual agreement with GLR, CHS wouldn't have to ignite a few million dollars on fire to save their bacon. With a return to mutual agreement with GLR, CHS could spend the money they are spending now and have an exponentially better operation. With a return to mutual agreement, there would be no interruption in steam-train service. With a return to mutual agreement with GLR, CHS would be back with a known winner - a group that is known to be safe and reliable ... and FROM COLORADO!!! (It is the COLORADO Historical Society, is it not? - C(NY)HS?)
I don't know where you call home B, but I'm also upset that CHS has access to state education money that they intend to waste on this political hoo-ha. They have not managed things with regards to Loop projects in the past. Couple this with sourcing money from improper sources, and CHS should certainly be critiqued. CHS should be ashamed of this mess that they are clearly one-half of.
CHS may very well be successful, but they are doing it with a very sour and negative driving force. Their success will be a waste of big-bucks and their tasteless smiting of the operator that built this operation.
At the very very very least, CHS should be planning some sort of official THANK YOU to the past and current operators/staff of the Georgetown Loop. If they have no class and no good taste, they'll show no gracious appreciation. That right there B will show the true colors = lack of character and integrity of CHS.
More true colors to come next spring. Perhaps CHS will prove the logistics wrong and have a turn-key world class steam operation by next May like they proudly proclaim. Don't wager too much, B.
We will see.
20 days remain.