Trains in Art

Trains have always fascinated. They have always fascinated the author, an ardent railfan, like they fascinate so many children then and now.
The artists of the day were equally fascinated and their paintings of trains show both their own feelings and how trains figured in society of the time.
Trains are a major engineering and development feat of the industrial revolution. Their size, the power of the locomotives and the ability to move large amounts of freight and passengers is still impress...