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DCR, designers and local historians refine rail-trail signage and Diamond Junction plans
Summary
DCR project staff and local historians reviewed interpretive panels, confirmed historic-railroad naming (leaning to 'Massachusetts Central Railroad'), and discussed design choices for the Diamond Junction, reuse of Bridge 128 granite, and how to connect interpretation to the yellow South Sudbury Station.
Designers, DCR staff and the Sudbury Historical Commission spent the Nov. 12 meeting refining how the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail and the intersecting Mass Central Rail Trail will look and be interpreted in Sudbury.
Marsha Rasmussen, staff liaison to the Rail Trails advisory committee, presented consultant Lynn Horske's proposed sign system: three types of interpretive elements (granite posts, National-Park-Service-style posts and kiosk bulletin boards), a reduced text question-and-answer approach, and a blue color palette. "We have 3 different types of signs that are along the rail trail," Rasmussen said, explaining the concept and the need to streamline language and use local photographs where possible.
Amber Christofferson, DCR trails and greenways planner and project manager for the Sudbury-to-Hudson…
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