Today we had two booths at the Girl Scouts 100th anniversary celebration, which was held at the Alameda Country Fairgrounds. We had one booth for the depot, with a small O scale display running trains and a cable car project; in the second booth we had the Operation Lifesaver booth to promote railroad safety. The…
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Big Read Event
Come and join us at the depot for the Big Read event in conjunction with the San Leandro Library. The reading will start at 11am am on Saturday and trains will be running until 2pm.
Scenery and Trains
Today was a very productive day at SLHRS. On the HO display a secratary and desk was added to the Del Monte building in San Leandro. Lights were added to a building in Oleum. Several memebers were running trains, including a very nice model of the Southern Pacific Daylight, a small passenger consist from the…
Successful operations session on the Souther Pacific Overland route.
Tuesday evening was the scene of a successful operating session (running the display like a real railroad)…after the quick track cleaning. Quite a few trains were running, with no major problems…all in all a successful operation. Check back next month for the next operating session.
Work in the San Leandro area of the HO display and work on the bridges for the G&O.
Work has been continuing at a feverish pace in the area of the HO display representing San Leandro. The building representing the Del Monte fruit packing plant have been installed with only detailing and lighting left to complete. A backdrop has been installed to tie the entire scene together, and painting is continuing on the…
Del Monte Foods and Police Cars
Today saw the installation of the of the Del Monte Foods in the San Leandro area of the display. The building is mostly complete with only the dock and the final details to be completed. On the other end of the layout in Antelope the “gumball” type red beacons were installed in two of the…
Scenery and Signal Discussion
This Saturday saw more progress on the ground-cover between Oleum and the Oakland yard on the HO scale display. Currently underway in this area is a small cemetery. A discussion between a couple of members started to figure out what type of signalling will be used on the HO scale display. Several members were running…
Touching up Scenery, Working on Locomotives and Running Trains
This Tuesday was fairly busy at the Depot. The scenery committee was working on touching up some of the scenery, painting over scratches in the plaster in preparation for more ground-cover. A couple of members spent the evening working on their locomotives, one with an electrical problem (ugh, the problems with converting to DCC), and…
Derailments and such…
Tuesday was a pretty laid back day down at the depot. Early in the day some work was done on the G&O display, but the HO display had several members running trains in the evening. Overall it went pretty well, although a couple members had issues with cars derailing. My problems were caused mostly from…
Lazy Saturday
Saturday was a fairly lazy day down at the depot with only a couple of members present. The HO scale display saw trees planted in the Oleum area, and the trial run of a members mixed freight train. The G&O had a couple of members running their trains, with video of them to be uploaded…