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Mahwah Museum Hosting Special Hours For Donald Cooper Railroad
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MAHWAH, NJ — The Mahwah Museum is hosting special holiday hours for the Donald Cooper Model Railroad.
The railroad will be open Fridays from 6 to 8:30 p.m. until Dec. 21. Santa Claus will visit from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21.
The HO-scale model railroad has seven trains, including replicas of many of the trains that ran through Mahwah in the golden age of the railroad. There are two railroad yards, one for passenger trains and one for freight trains, so visitors can see how the operators of the railroads moved cars around as they were in use.
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The railroad was the gift to the museum by Renee Darboe, a Mahwah resident, whose late husband, Donald Cooper, collected more 700 cars and 70 locomotives during his lifetime. Volunteers designed and maintain the track.
The railroad is also open from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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