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A Locomotive or Train can play many roles in art, for example:
  • As a work of art in itself in addition to most functional considerations, especially in Streamlined steam locomotives and luxury passenger accommodations of the early 20th century, known also as the Machine Age

  • As a subject for a novel or film, such as '' Runaway Train ''

  • As a Metaphor in song or poetry, particularly for Physical Power or directed movement (physical, ''romantic'' or other), as in Fisherman's Blues :

  • :..."''I wish I was the brakeman''

on a hurtling, fevered train

crashing headlong into the heartland

like a cannon in the rain


  • As the main subject of a painting, sculpture or photograph



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