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New Clinic! DCC: Basic Operations
Our second skills clinic of the 2015-2016 season, DCC: Basic Operations will be October 10th at 10:00 AM!
New Clinic! Keeping Trains on the Track
Our first skills clinic of the 2015-2016 season, Keeping Trains on the Track, will be September 26th at 10:00 AM!
Construction is Complete on our SP Depot
Construction is finally complete on our SP Depot! Thanks City of San Leandro!
Construction to Begin on Depot Repairs
A Note from San Leandro Historical Railway Society President Mark L. Johnson, J.D. We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday 5/26/15, the Contractor hired by the City of San Leandro to make repairs to the Depot delivered and installed the Scaffolding necessary to complete the repairs. As you may recall our Depot was damaged…
Tuesday evening running.
This Tuesday saw many members running their trains around the SP Overland Route. Of special interest was a visit by a family member of one of our previous members. That person had not seen the display since the early ’90’s, at which time there was very little if any of the current model railroad display….
Productive couple of weeks for the Southern Pacific Overland Route.
Recently much of the work has been focused on the HO scale display inside the depot. The major areas of work have been the roundhouse and turntable in the Roseville yard, and upstairs on the revamp of the the Sparks yard. The roundhouse and turntable project is going well with most of the track completed. The most…
Pictures of the turntable upgrade.
As mentioned in one of the previous posts one of our large projects this year is the upgrade of the turntable in our Roseville yard. The work is goin well with only a few of the replacement tracks left to be installed. Here are some pics of the removal of the old turntable and the…
Productive Saturday for the HO display.
Today saw a lot of work being done on the HO display, and also a couple of trains running. Work is continuing on the turntable/roundhouse upgrade, with some of the track in the roundhouse being spiked into place. Further scenery work was done in the area around the entrance to the Fairfield yard. Also wiring…
Turntable update on the HO display.
One of the large projects that was started recently was to replace the turntable in the Roseville area of the HO display. We removed the old turntable as it had never worked very well and are in the process of installing a 130′ version from Walthers. The decision was made to remove all of the…