The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Song of the Locomotive

Anonymous. "Song of the Locomotive." Vanity Fair, January 7, 1860, 20.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
illustration
Abstract

The locomotive explains its journey through the night and the passengers it carries, but it doesn't wish to decay like the others it's seen. It welcomes a head-on collision.