I am sure Greg is right BUT??
What I am trying to do is come up with a out of the box idea. It is to expensive to do it the old way so it seems like if it could happen it has to be a new way.
IMHO: Somehow it must be a mixture of hard core and not hard core. If you want Chama, Antonito, the Friends and the Railroad to get behind the idea you have to be talking about a lot more that 30 or 40 extra people coming to town. If you can get all the above involved you definitely have a better chance of success, and you start off with a lot of creditability. You need to somehow make the foamers and the wanabee foamers as well as the people that just like trains HAPPY. This will require thinking way out of the box.
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