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Chicago-St Louis high speed rail is a go. Don't know about KC, maybe that's later. St Louis Gateway station has a walkway over to the 2 platforms with colored glass in the windows.

Ugghhh, ugly ceiling tiles!! -though plain cinderblock probably has a high echo factor.

An office space learns the pitfalls of plaster.

Wow, nice floor too! ...Possibly just as difficult to brick all that as painting. I imagine the brickwork everywhere saved the place from a good amount of damage that would have been suffered by plaster. (St Louis even has museum areas in the surplus "mall storefront" space, would be fitting here too.)

I used to be made to sit on that left bench side wall while my watcher sat on the right. She was mean and hateful, refusing to speak to me and yelling at me if I spoke anyway. I was not allowed to walk or move around and when I fidgeted she would yell at me to be still.
This place was populated with evil staffers who ran an underground operation. They had access to all the records and patients as well as the ears of the docs. They had two or more faces depending on whom they were dealing with and what they happened to want at any particular time. They used this usurped power to act out their insecurities by abusing patients, bullying patients, torturing patients and the children from the attached shelter, physically and mentally and by abusing the trust doctors misplaced in them to cause painful and abusive unwarranted treatments and tests to be done on their victims by reporting symptoms falsely (or just making some up) to the doctors.
They also used drugs and medical equipment and procedures to torture and abuse the patients they chose to make victims. These were usually those children abandoned by their families or adults who had no one to look in on them. Always the helpless never anyone who might be able to defend themself. They wielded absolute control over communication and access. This served to create a virtual prison environment for those chosen to be abused.
The place was hell for thousands of people and many thaousands of lives were destroyed here for sport and entertainment.

"If seal is broken, do not use"...wall?

Good one-How many Buffalo Central employees does it take to change a light bulb in a vaulted ceiling??

I wonder if all the big open ceilings here were done in brick.

Of course, I'm always amazed in St Louis Union that anyone in the 1980s had the money & time to repaint THAT vaulted ceiling, it's got SO much detail!!

Sooo Chicago, or St Louis...*drools* can't see this kind of sculpture in a gallery!

(a great-grandfather of my fiancee's probably spent half his work year here-NYC RR)

Ooo, someone could have a model RC plane fly-in meet in the main open space.

Speaking of Art Deco...it sort of reminds me of Chicago.

it would make an impressive hotel tower.

Did older hospitals have windows in their operating rooms? I've never seen windows in modern OR's.