New Clinic! Caboose Lighting

Our HO Division Superintendent, Tom Blinn, and Electrical Committee Chair and Society Treasurer Barry Chinn will be running a new clinic for the 2015-2016 season!  This clinic will be “Caboose Lighting”.  This clinic will happen on Saturday, February 27th in the Depot Museum.  The clinic will be a hands-on session building one of the boards.  If you bring 2 trucks with plastic side frames and...

New Clinic! DCC: Basic Operations

Our HO Division Superintendent, Tom Blinn, will be running our second clinic for the 2015-2016 season!  This clinic will be “DCC: Basic Operations”.  This clinic will happen on October 10th in the Depot Museum.  Tom will be covering basic operation, programming, and installation of Digital Command Control (DCC).  The DCC protocol is defined by the Digital Command Control Working group of the...

New Clinic! Keeping Trains on the Track

Our HO Division Superintendent, Tom Blinn, will be running our first clinic for the 2015-2016 season!  This clinic will be “Keeping Trains on the Track”.  This is a fundamental clinic that all should understand in order to maximize the enjoyment of the railroading hobby.  This works for all scales.  You will have to bring nothing other than an open mind and a desire to have your track and trains...

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 on 12/30/14, when a tree was blown down during a wind storm. We are...

Engineer Photo Opp Success!

We had a great two days this past weekend with our Summer 2014 Open House & Train Show!  The HO display inside was running smoothly with some members running multiple trains at once, while the G&O out back sparkled in the sunshine.  Lots of adults and kids had a great time exploring both layouts.  Even regular visitors were excited for all the new additions and upgrades we\’ve made...