This month’s meeting of the Central Coast Chapter, NRHS, will be held on Friday, December 15, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the South Bay Historical Railroad Society located in the Santa Clara Depot, 1005 Railroad Avenue, Santa Clara. Everyone is invited to attend. The program for December will be a multi-media presentation complete with musical soundtrack presented by NRHS member Doug Scott. The presentation will include Doug’s impressions of the 2023 NRHS Convention, held in Deerfield Beach, Florida from September 1-6, 2023. 

There will be lots of images of time spent at the Deerfield Beach train station as well as excursions on Brightline, the steam powered Sugar Express on the U.S. Sugar Railroad , a Miami Transit tour, and a visit to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.

Regular monthly membership meetings are both in person and on Zoom, while Board meetings are now online-only.

To join a Zoom meeting, go to:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86214899971.
The meeting ID: 862 1489 9971.

Please keep your microphone muted unless you have a question or comment during the meeting. Try to call in by 7:30pm and please be patient for the host to admit you.

Central Coast received a donation of many railroad-related books from longtime member Conrad Gleason. The collection includes about 1000 hardcover books, and another 1000 in soft bindings. We will offer these for sale at the next several Chapter meetings. Since it is not practical to transport all of the books to the meetings, we will bring a small, random subset about 100 to each meeting.

Many of the books are listed online with prices at http://members.trainorders.com/clem.  We will update the list as time permits. If you wish to purchase any of these titles please send an email expressing the title or titles you wish to buy and the date you will be attending a meeting to: central_coast_chapter@yahoo.com.

Meeting Place and Time

(Santa Clara Depot 2/28/2008)

We meet each month at the historic Santa Clara CalTrain depot, 1005 Railroad Avenue, on the 3rd Friday of each month. Doors open at 7:00 and the meeting starts promptly at 7:30pm. Our monthly program starts after a short business meeting. Members and non-members are welcome! Want to do some railfanning prior to your visit? Checkout the Youtube video An An Afternoon In Santa Clara. filmed by member Ken Rattenne in June of 2016.