EMRCA seeks Pan Am support for pedestrian overpass @ N Adams

[johnpbarlow]

Berkshire Eagle article: "North Adams museum design aims to evoke connection to city's industrial past"

Excerpts:

The exterior design of the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum [EMRCA] evokes the modern high-speed "bullet" trains.

Architect Zhu Pei employs a shiny, silver-colored metallic siding on a smoothly curved edifice with no sharp angles shaped to fit between its neighbors — the Hoosic River on one side and the Pan Am railroad tracks on the other.

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/ ... ast,569133

Background on the O gauge EMRCA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_M ... ure_Museum
https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/02/f ... combi.html
https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/02/a ... _mode.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/arts ... setts.html

[newpylong]

It's been long needed. There has been talks of a tunnel prior as well.