Stav in the USA 2010: San Francisco - Golden State Model Railroad Club and Dirty Harry

Because I booked my hire car before I finalized my accommodation, I found I was going to need to book another car for the last few days. Because I had not been able to book an old car to do my Route 66 day trip I began looking at options. In the end I settled on a Ford Mustang Hardtop because it was a lot cheaper than the Corvette and Camaro. When I went to pick the car up I found it did not have a GPS, so I ‘had’ to upgrade to the convertible. A real shame hey?

After getting the car I headed out to the Golden State Model Railroad Club. They had a lot more on show than the GGMRC, with three different exhibits in three different scales. There was not a lot of members around, so one of the exhibits had a lot of trains running and the others were a little light on. Still the scenery was quite impressive, particularly on the ‘O’ scale exhibit (‘O’ scale = 1:48).

Next on my list of things to do was see one of the scenes from the Dirty Harry movies. I ended up choosing the Cross at Mt Davidson park because it was probably the easiest identified and also less likely to have changed in the 30+ years since the movie was released. I was surprised to discover it was on top of a hill, which was not obvious in the movie as the scene was shot at night. It also offered views of the city as well.