Bo,
While I agree, it looks like Bob Shank isn't handling this well from a PR standpoint, it may just be that he has gotten tired of dealing with the Nay Sayers and the government in Creede.
Bob has posted a few time in the past, detailing his fight to get the railroad up and running and he seemed like a reasonable guy, struggling against a whole city full of @#$%&'s.
Remember, he has paid for the land and should be able to use it. If the city is going to try an adverse possesion claim, he may have to show that he has opposed it.
If, as suggested in another post, the land is actually state land with the railroad holding a right of way that predates the current adverse possesion laws, his marking out the property may well have been unnecessarily confrontational.
I'm not sure I would want to run a business in a community that doesn't want me, but that's not my call to make.