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…
Tag: model train
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.
Tuesday August 30th.
The ops session got off to a slow start due to some problems with member’s locomotives.
Saturday August 27: Work and Play
Saturday was an eventful day down at the depot with members both working and running trains on the G&O and also on the HO scale displays. Of interest on the O gauge portion of the G&O was the successful running of an antique tin train with several coaches. On the HO scale display we had…
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.