Having your cake...and eating it too?

First, let me apologize for the length between posts. Contrary to the gloom and doom economic tales the transportation segment of the economy is alive and well; and keeping me busy 6 (or more) days a week.
Oh, where to start...
In the March 9 issue of the Times is a story about the Gary airport and how it is all the fault of the EJ&E railroad that the airport hasn't "taken off." But lets' talk about the article for a minute. First there's this quote " "The FAA says its illegal," Davis said last week as he drove his pickup truck out to the tracks. "It's been grandfathered in, but they say it has to go."" Let's be clear about this, the FAA has not authority over railroads. Yes, it's true that if a railroad tried to build new tracks that close to a runway the project would be shot down. But these tracks have been here since, as the article does point out, "before the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk" How is poor placement of an airport the fault of the railroad?
Next the article says that the tracks effectively shorten the 7000 foot runway by approximately 1000 feet. That would make the runway about 6000 feet long. Midway Airports' longest runway is only 6522 feet long. Somehow I doubt that the runway length is the sole determining factor of regional airlines avoiding Gary like the plague.
After an article full of doom and gloom the article briefly mentions a $5million dollar investment by the Gary Jet Center in a new hangar. If Mr. Davis truly believed that it was all doom and gloom why did he put $5million at such risk?
It seems more like a pr ploy intended to pressure the railroads to hurry up and submit to a plan that may not be in their own business interest in order to further the business interest of Mr. Davis.
When will people realize the first problem with the Gary airport is the name? And then you have someone running it that wants it to lose money, nevermind his own golden parachute.
Kinda makes me wish I was living in there reality.