Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - dano
Trains, boats, automobiles.
Trucks and buses.
But no planes.
Well, make that one plane.
For Claude Cooper, life has been one adventure with transportation after another.
For the past three years, the 90-year-old Cooper has been a full-time volunteer with the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, working the nonprofit's Canton train five days a week, 111/2 hours a day.
Cooper, a father and grandfather who has lived in Canton, Cuyahoga Falls and Brimfield Township, has been fascinated by and working with things that move since he was a kid.
He drove a car as a grade-schooler sitting on his father's lap in Knoxville, Tenn.
Trains were a part of his life as a child as well.
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