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Personally, I don't buy the "more tourists" argument. It seems to me this area is already at least somewhat "touristy". How many tourists REALLY would you get? You'd get people who are train buffs/railfanners mostly, other history minded people, and likely very few others. It seems to me that if there was money to made "touristing" the place out, it would have been done already. I know if I had in my possession something that could in the long term make me money, I'd spend whatever I had to to fix it. Especially a tourist trap. Tourists pay $2.00 for a can of Coke at a tourist trap, when that same can can be had at most soda machines for 50 or 60 cents. And T-shirts? Caps? "Miscellaneous memorabilia"? Tourists spend huge money. Of course, that is an argument (seeming a large one) that "The tourists would make whomever made the roundhouse a museum rich". I contend if thats the case, it would have already been done, or there would have been a much bigger fight to prevent WalMart (or anyone else) from coming in. Obviously the locality figures Walmart is going to bring in more money than tourists. I think thats probably true. Obviously the people in the area are happy with whatever tourist traffic they get and prefer to buy things cheap. Or they figured any new tourists wouldnt add a significant amount of money to the local econemy, where as the Walmart would. Furthermore, with even 6 stalls still left, there is probably enough room for some tourist action at the site. There probably are not many (any?) parties shopping around to make it a tourist trap because the reality is that the potential for big tourist money simply does not exist. Also, in regards to Target, Costco et al, I am willing to bet that somewhere one or all of these stores are sitting on land from the railroads. \Dan
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