Tag: depot

  • First day of the June Show

    Today was a success as the first day of the June show. We had a fair amount of interest in the items available in our yard sale. Due to popular demand we will also be running the yard sale on Sunday. We will have many trains running, come down and see us.

  • 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…

  • Eventful Saturday

    This Saturday was an eventful day down at the depot.  On the HO scale display more scenery work was done in the Selby/Oleum area of the layout.  Several members were running trains today, including a very nice model of the California Zephyr and of the Empire Builder.  These trains were joined by a passenger consist…

  • The Ops Session That Didn’t Happen

    An ops session was scheduled for tonight but unfortunately it was not to be.  After figuring out all of the problems with the various locomotives it was too late to actually run.  Instead the members just ran their trains as they preferred. We will give it another try next month.

  • The Ops Session That Didn\’t Happen

    An ops session was scheduled for tonight but unfortunately it was not to be.  After figuring out all of the problems with the various locomotives it was too late to actually run.  Instead the members just ran their trains as they preferred. We will give it another try next month.