“A steam train!” a young boy exclaimed, shaking his hands with wild enthusiasm. “Look at that one!” He sat cross-legged on the ground in the backyard of Alan and Nola Olsen, literally shaking with ...

For more than 70 years, misty mornings in the East Bay hills have been filled with uncanny sights and sounds for this day and age: hissing steam and echoing whistles, as small-yet-mighty locomotives ...