The MSHC 2011 Year in Review Year 2011 was an extremely busy time for the Maywood Station Museum. Aside from the usual preservation and maintenance items, which must be addressed as they come up, membership undertook a very challenging schedule of museum open house events including a new series of free concerts at the station. A highlight of 2011 included the Maywood Station Museum receiving the 2011 Bergen County Historic Preservation Award in the category of Preservation or Restoration of a Historic Structure, Site or Object on May 26th for its work to restore New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad ALCO S-2 Locomotive #206. The locomotive previously was added in 2009 to the National and State of New Jersey Historic Register’s. The Maywood Station Museum received the award from the Bergen County Historic Advisory Board at a ceremony at Hackensack’s Historic Church on the Green conducted by the Bergen County Assembly, Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders and Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. Year 2011 also brought many new additions and donations to the museum and portions of the interior of the station museum was remodeled by the membership and new displays and photographs added. Public attendance figures to the museum’s 2011 schedule of three open houses on Wednesday evenings and three Sunday afternoons between May and November and the Annual Santa at Maywood Station on Saturday, December 10th set a new record. In 2011, we added free concerts on the station grounds to our three Wednesday evening open houses in May, June and August. The concerts were called The Maywood Station Museum Backyard Summer Concert Series and were sponsored by Park Avenue Acura. The concerts featured performances by local bands and musicians and were extremely well received. On October 2nd, the museum hosted what was their most ambitious open house to date – a combined Annual Railroad Day at Maywood Station and RocktoberFest 2011, which featured free concerts by four bands on the station grounds during a 5-hour open house. The event went on flawlessly and it was estimated that over 500 people visited the station that day. For the year, the Maywood Station Museum schedule of six open houses and the Annual Santa at Maywood Station event drew 2577 visitors up from our previous high of 2351 visitors in 2010. Prior year totals were 2289 in year 2009; 1982 in year 2008, 2142 in year 2007, 1967 in year 2006 and 1621 in year 2005. The museum saw an 18% increase in revenue from open houses as compared to year 2010. The books, Maywood - The Borough, The Railroad, and The Station and The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad in New Jersey and continued good sales from Museum Store items including The Maywood Station Story DVD, holiday ornaments, calendars, engraved bricks and Maywood Station models contributed to much of the revenue gains as well as general donations and commercial photo shoots. We invite you in 2012 to visit and experience our museum for the first time if you haven’t already in the past, or come and visit us again and see history. - Ed Kaminski NJ Operation Toy Train led by NYS&W SD40-2 #3018 (top) is shown arriving at Maywood Station on December 10, 2011 to collect new, unwrapped toys for the U. S. Marines Corps Reserve's Tots For Tots Drive; U. S. Marines Corps Reserve members, Santa and his helpers from NJ Operation Toy Train pose for a photo (middle) at Maywood Station while collecting new, unwrapped toys for the U. S. Marines Corps Reserve's Tots For Tots Drive; and a view (above) of NJ Operation Toy Train next to MSHC Caboose #24542 before departing Maywood Station for more collection stops along the route of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway in northern New Jersey. (All above photos by Ed Kaminski) 14
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