Having grown up in North Idaho not too far from Sandpoint, your assessment of the realtor is spot on. CDA and Sandpoint were beautiful towns not anointed by NIMBY's and granola crunchers when I grew up in the 1950's. Sandpoint in particular was occupied by working people just trying to make a living. Now you have realtors who are trying to sell over priced property to rich Californians, both groups find railroads and working people to be unacceptable in their little community.

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> The realtor accuses a commenter from railroad rich
> Cheney, Wa as not a resident of Sandpoint,
> implying he would not understand their plight and
> that he might also work for a railroad. She of
> course is blind to her own actual bias as a
> realtor, not able to get away with the line,
> trains don't run on those tracks anymore. She also
> like others does not notice traffic noise,
> especially the hiss of tires, because that noise
> really is 24/7 and is of them. The trains are
> unnecessary and an intruder in their hissing
> world.
> Naturally the trains must move to a rural
> location, which Sandpoint was when I visited in
> the early 70's before she helped ruin the place.