the San Francisco Bay area, watching the peninsula commuter trains just a few blocks from my boyhood home, and meeting my grandmothers on SP 's Lark and Del Monte passenger trains. [photo - http://www.bcoolidge.com/sp%20Pix/Harriman-Coaches-on-the-Del-Monte-at-Palo-Alto_6_19_69_w.jpg] As a very small child, I had a box of Brio trains, and they were always my