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Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum in Sparta is closing at the end of July and its contents will be sold to the public, its co-owner, Wendy Molinari, recently told NJ Advance Media. The museum was opened by Molinari and her husband, Louis, fulfilling his dream to have a model train museum. “Since he was young, he was interested in (model trains) as a hobby,” Wendy Molinari said. Louis Molinari modeled the museum’s display after his hometown of Ridgefield as it looked in the 1950s, Wendy Molinari said. Details include the mountain that serves as the model railroad’s centerpiece and is modeled…

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