Saturday July 2nd, Open extended hours.

This Saturday, July 2nd, we will be open from 9am until 5pm.  We will be welcoming the NMRA advance section Bay Area layout tours, from the convention in Sacramento.  Trains will be running constantly throughout the day both on the HO display and the G&O.

Successful Summer Open House

A note from the San Leandro Historical Railway Society President, Joe Barker. We had another successful summer show this weekend. We had a extremely good attendance both days.  This was especially surprising Saturday morning when it was raining heavily. The weather was beautiful most of today.  Both the HO and G&O railroads were running and all of our visitors were having fun.  Many people...

Prep for the Open House

Work has been continuing at a furious pace to get at least one loop of track completed on the G&O to be ready for the open house this coming weekend. Work has also been progressing on the HO scale layout, mostly in the area of sound and some light up signs. Here are some pictures of the work over the last couple of weeks on the G&O: Working on one of the O scale bridges, representing the...

New videos on the SLHRS YouTube channel.

We have recently posted 2 new videos on the SLHRS YouTube channel. The first video shows one of our members running the first live steam locomotive (actually the first powered locomotive period) on the upper section of the G&O garden railway. The second video was taken by another of our members inside on the HO scale layout. http://www.youtube.com/user/slhrs

Productive Saturday 1-15-11

Today was another productive Saturday, with work continuing on both the G&O and the HO scale display. For the G&O work is continuing on the bench-work for the setup yard. On the HO scale display work is continuing on the Alameda Mole, we now have epoxy \”water\” with ripples. Over in Antelope sound was added for the wig-wag signals and for the hobo scene. Thank you Ed,...