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EXTREME RAILROADING – Page 2 – The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News & Notes, Links & Commentary
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. March 20, 2016. November 10, 2016. In Developing the Concept. Mayor Alcombright and other city officials, along with the North Adams Partnership and a wide array of stakeholders, have embraced efforts to realize the comprehesive vision for cultural and economic development outlined in the Concept Development Study. March 8, 2016.
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Q&A re: N.A. – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. Q&A re: N.A. June 30, 2016. June 30, 2016. After a period out of the loop and under the weather, I’m back on the case of EMRCA. Last week I visited their office in Heritage Park, met the new project manager Ben Sosne and other office staff, took more photos of the enhanced scale model. Who is behind this? How big is big? Scale and...
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Mohawk & MoCA – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. March 24, 2016. April 25, 2016. I have been lucky to be present at tours of both these facilities in the past week, and I’m here to tell you that big things are afoot in the Tunnel City. 8221; After decades of proposals that petered out, when will another moment arrive with so many prospective efforts coming together to change the...
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Year-end update – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. December 26, 2016. December 26, 2016. In Developing the Concept. In particular, I saw detailed plans and illustrations for two components of the overall attraction that Tom is developing for Heritage Park, a showplace distillery and a “Museum of Time.”. To describe the latter as a collection of 19th-century industrial clocks does ...
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Comparables 2 – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. July 5, 2016. November 10, 2016. I’m convinced that the model railroad museum that Thomas Krens plans for Heritage Park in North Adams, Massachusetts, will have only one rival in the world — Minatur Wunderland. I recently came across another list of “ the most incredible model trains in the world. Here I’ll simply list some ...
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Comparables – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. March 8, 2016. April 11, 2016. Tom Krens certainly intends for his model train museum to be incomparable, but it makes sense to compare his plan with some other sites that usually appear on lists of the best model train displays in the world. Tom’s favorite example is the. Segment on Northlandz, please do so now. Behold the creato...
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The Model – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. For an illustrated tour as soon as the new models are ready for presentation, and for news of further “trainsformations” as take shape.]. Here you get a sense of the length of the building – more than two football fields. In the center are the three dining cars of the attached restaurant. To the right is representati...This overhe...
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Welcome to X-RR! – EXTREME RAILROADING
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The X-RR Blog – about a Model Train Museum proposed by Thomas Krens for North Adams, Massachusetts – with News and Notes, Links and Commentary. EMRCA Concept Development Study. March 20, 2016. November 10, 2016. In Developing the Concept. Mayor Alcombright and other city officials, along with the North Adams Partnership and a wide array of stakeholders, have embraced efforts to realize the comprehesive vision for cultural and economic development outlined in the Concept Development Study. You are comment...
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Climbing Prospect – Thoreauly Mine
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Steve Satullo in conversation with himself – but you're welcome to listen in – intended primarily as a personal filing cabinet in the cloud. About me, etc. It seemed a road for the pilgrim to enter upon who would climb to the gates of heaven. In that twelve thousand mile circuit of the country, the summer after our first year in the city (while Tom used our Brooklyn Heights apartment as his. One inquiry though did hold out hope. I found a house to rent that might serve Jane, Bella, Christine, and me ...