Reply to "It's The End for the Maui Sugar Cane Train"

I assume Maui, Lahaina, or ? has a Chamber of Commerce and an interest in tourist dollars.  I am always mystified when somebody kills a golden goose of a tourist draw to an area.  I think this with locals in Durango wanting to move the train from  downtown.  Lahaina has whale watching (from a distance, so not that exciting), and the road to Hana, so there are other draws, but Mesa Verde is not that close to Durango, and the ski season is not year around.  My several trips to Durango was for the railroad, which in its present form is best represented to me by the coal burning C&T, which doesn't run to Durango. Places l have visited because of RR history include Mich. UP, Maine two footers, Alaska, s. Ky., Strasburg and EBT Pa., the Calf. Western, the Swiss Glacier Express, Norwegian rackrail, etc .  Most those places love tourist dollars, and Lahaina does not?  Hawaii should portray its sugar train history, on at least one of its islands.