Re: okay to be cynical... But

Sorry too, if you travel all the way from Germany to see an historic site and take some photos of "the way it was" (what little we still have) and find some new structure in your face. It won't make a toot of difference if there is a nice display in a giant building if that destroys the total 'sense of place' that one can get walking the yard. Making a building and putting interpretive captions on bits of railroadiana is easy. Hanging on to the sense one gets visiting Chama is the hard part, very fragile, and gone forever with a few well intended actions. Already, Chama has changed, with curbs and parking restrictions and a big red clock. Does Terrace Ave seem the same to you? Is that progress?