What caused the NWP to go away in the first place? Has anything changed in the area that would make rail profitable again? Railroads are a business and as such require a profitable environment to continue to exist. I love trains and would love to see the Novato people wake up and smell the coffee, think "beyond their own fence" and look into the future of $6 gal. gasoline. Unfortunately those people have lawyers and a court system that will hear their whining and slow things to a sickening crawl. Using public money opens the operation up to the will of the public. A corporate entity needs to open the railroad with profitable intentions and take the "public" out of the equation, otherwise this is all academic.