Category: News

  • 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.

  • Successful Summer Open House

    A note from the San Leandro Historical Railway Society President, Joe Barker. We had another successful summer show this weekend. We had a extremely good attendance both days.  This was especially surprising Saturday morning when it was raining heavily. The weather was beautiful most of today.  Both the HO and G&O railroads were running and…

  • Prep for the Open House

    Work has been continuing at a furious pace to get at least one loop of track completed on the G&O to be ready for the open house this coming weekend. Work has also been progressing on the HO scale layout, mostly in the area of sound and some light up signs. Here are some pictures…

  • New videos on the SLHRS YouTube channel.

    We have recently posted 2 new videos on the SLHRS YouTube channel. The first video shows one of our members running the first live steam locomotive (actually the first powered locomotive period) on the upper section of the G&O garden railway. The second video was taken by another of our members inside on the HO…

  • Saturday March 19th.

    Today was a slow day at the club mostly due to the weather. Further planning was done by the members of the G&O as it was to wet and muddy to move any more dirt today. Inside on the HO layout a couple of member were running trains, including Thomas much to the delight of…

  • We now have a YouTube channel!!!

    Announcing the YouTube channel: SLHRS Follow us and watch for upcoming videos to be featured.

  • Productive Saturday 1-15-11

    Today was another productive Saturday, with work continuing on both the G&O and the HO scale display. For the G&O work is continuing on the bench-work for the setup yard. On the HO scale display work is continuing on the Alameda Mole, we now have epoxy \”water\” with ripples. Over in Antelope sound was added…

  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas everyone from all of us at SLHRS

  • New Pictures

    Thank you Eugene for taking those really cool pictures of the depot lit up for Christmas.  The pictures are in the photo gallery, and as you can see I added one onto the front picture also.