(Originally published August 5, 2023)

California has beautiful coastlines, rugged mountains, deserts in the southwest, and lots of railroading action. Come with me and imagine three Revival State events that the RS team chartered in late August in the future. We will hear an old veteran return to her original home on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. Then, we travel to the foothills of the cascades and enjoy a steam locomotive whose design has never been used in America. And finally, we will witness and hear two different hard-working steam locomotives on a railroad that was impossible to build. This is a genuine California Dreaming episode for the RS movement.