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There are steam locomotive murals like this all over small town America. Ive seen maybe a half dozen without searching them out. Some are really good and well researched, others are cartoonish interpretations with exaggerated cowcatchers and balloon stacks. I’ve thought about doing an illustrated book about them, if it hasn’t been done yet.
I’ve also thought about, after 60 years or more, the incredible and long lived persistence of the steam locomotive image in local murals and other folk art. It is very deep in the American psyche and does not appear to be going away anytime soon. No one does diesel art in these settings. It would make a great art history masters thesis.
