By Ed Kaminski T he Maywood Station Museum Starts a New Restoration Project! An original Semaphore pole and armature was donated by the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway Corporation to Maywood the Station Museum in mid-June 2013 and will be our next restoration project. The twenty-five foot tall Semaphore original controlled train movements for the railroad as late as the 1960’s at milepost 12.2 in Bogota, New Jersey. The Maywood Station Museum has begun a full restoration of the Semaphore will a goal of returning it to operating condition. The mechanism was long ago removed and reconstructing a new one will be part of the project. The Maywood Station Museum already has received the correct signal blade and colored lenses. The project to completely restore the semaphore will most likely continue sometime into 2014 when it be installed on the Maywood Station Museum grounds and fully operate once again. At the July 10, 2013 work session, Maywood Station Museum member Wendy Cummings uses a wire wheel to clean up the metal on the pole An antique automobile passes the Maywood Station Museum during Maywood’s Annual 4th of July Parade on July 4, 2013 with the station decked out in red, white and blue. (Photo by Ed Kaminski) Summer Concert Series Goes Into Full Swing! The Maywood Station Museum’s Backyard Summer Concert Series has been sponsored by Park Ave Acura since it was started in the summer of 2011. Each free concert features performances by noted local performers. The series has grown each year and many artists and bands have approached the Maywood Station Museum about the opportunity to perform at the historic museum venue. This year’s Maywood Station Museum’s Backyard Summer Concert Series sponsored by Park Ave Acura began on Wednesday evening, June 19, 2013 with Dave Murphy & The Bull Brothers. Beautiful weather accompanied a flawless two-hour performance of original songs. This marked the third straight summer that songwriter/musician/recording artist Dave Murphy has played at the Maywood Station Museum free concert series during our regularly scheduled Museum Open House’s. At the Wednesday evening, August 14, 2013 concert, songwriter/musician/recording artist Anker performed and was well received by the audience. The final free concert in the series will occur at Annual Railroad Day at Maywood Station on Sunday, October 6, 2013 when David W. Jacobsen will take the stage and performs his original songs and some versions of classic cover songs. section of the semaphore, which is being readied for restoration. (Photo by Kevin Quinn) 13
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