Social media showed me to the story of garage parking spot in Vail, CO listed at $240K. The sale is pending, so there are ridiculously wealthy people out there.

How does that relate to trains? Real estate prices in Durango, CO are being driven up by wealthy retirees:

"These days, real estate prices in Durango, as in so many Western towns, have outrun most workers’ ability to buy or even rent modest digs."

"A two-year-old study by Root Policy, a Denver consulting firm, showed that single- and two-parent households have begun leaving Durango and southwestern Colorado in droves. Replacing them are retirees and wealthy non-working people. That means businesses struggle to find workers as 80% of people moving into La Plata County don’t work in the region."

[boulderweekly.com]

I predict that these wealthy people will not look kindly on dirty, oily, noisy steam trains. Wealthy people became wealthy by being aggressive and being bullies, so don't be surprised if they start bullying local governments to make the steam trains go away.