Category: Events

  • Halloween Track or Treat October 28th

    The San Leandro Historical Railway Society will hold its annual Halloween train show on Tuesday, October 28. The G&O Garden Railroad will be open from 5 to 8:30 p.m. so that kids may visit during daylight. The Society’s HO display is scheduled to be open from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.  Admission is free. Our 116-year-old…

  • Fall 2014 Open House & Train Show Announced!

    Our new Fall 2014 Open House & Train Show will be taking place September 20th & 21st, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday and 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Sunday. Our indoor HO Scale Display and our outside G&O Gauge Garden Railway Display will both be fully operational, weather permitting. Like our Summer…

  • New this Weekend: Train Engineer Photo Ops!

    We\’re gearing up for this weekend\’s open house!  Have you RSVP\’d on Facebook?  Our members have been busy the last few weeks qualifying their trains, cleaning the depot, and baking delightful goodies for our Bake Sale!  Since it\’s Father\’s Day weekend, we want to make sure all the dads spending their days with us have…

  • 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.

  • SLHRS Halloween Open Depot

    The San Leandro Historical Railway Society is proud to present our first ever night time Halloween open depot.  We’ll be decorating the depot with the spooky accouterments of Halloween and running trains both inside on the HO scale layout and outside on the G&O scale layout.  We’ll have candy for the kids and a great…

  • G&O BAGGRS Event a Hit!

    Yesterday\’s open house was a great success.  I want to thank everyone who participated in the event. We had about 50 BAGRS visitors and another 25 people who learned about the open house from newspaper or internet sources.  I want to thank Trisha Lyn Fawver for getting out the word. Joe Winkel and Edson Lee…

  • G&O Outdoor Railway Open House

    The G&O Outdoor Railway will be open on Sunday October 16, 2011 during the BAGRS’ East Bay District Tours.

  • Want A Spooky Halloween Open House? Vote Here!

    We\’re planning out our events for the rest of this year and next, so give us a hand. Do you want a spooky Halloween open house?

  • 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.

  • Successful Winter Open House

    With our semi-annual open house over with, we\’d like to say Thank You! to all the folks who came by and saw the Depot. We decked out both the HO and G&O Layouts with Christmas themed decoration and trains to keep a festive move. Many members commented that this was one of the best shows…