Fun at the 107th San Leandro Cherry Festival

We had a great time representing the San Leandro Historical Railway Society at the 107th San Leandro Cherry Festival on June 4th!  Society members Dominic & Trisha Fawver set up the booth and held down the fort most of the day, with members Peter Garrison, Mark Johnson, Edson Lee, Stan Voogd, and Pat Stratton all coming by throughout the day to help out and talk to attendees! The main topic...

Thank You, San Leandro City Council

No joke – we owe a huge thanks to the San Leandro City Council!  On March 7th at the City Council meeting, Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter presented members of the San Leandro Historical Railway Society with a ceremonial check (and yes, an actual check too!) for $6,000 to make up the balance of our Paint Fund to get the Depot re-painted.  We\’ve been fundraising for several years trying...

Construction is Complete on our SP Depot

HUGE thanks are in order to the City of San Leandro!  As you recall, the Eastern side of our SP Depot was damaged on December 30th, 2014 in the big wind storm here in San Leandro.  A large Eucalyptus tree on the Thrasher Park property uprooted and fell into our building, damaging the eves, a window, and some of the Norris Falls area of the G&O Garden Railway. We cleaned up the railway,...