Trains in art

Criteria

A locomotive or train can play many roles in art, for example:

As the main subject of a painting, sculpture, or photograph
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
As a metaphor in song or poetry, particularly for physical power or directed movement, as in Fisherman's Blues:

The following list is in chronological order, oldest to youngest:Rain, Steam and Speed – [The Great Western Railway], by J. M. W. Turner, 1844The Berlin-Potsdam Railway, by Adolph von Menzel, 1847 Gnome Watching Railway Train, by Carl Spitzweg, 1848The Lackawanna Valley, by George Inness, 1855The Railway Station, by William Powell Frith, 1862The Travelling Companions, by Augustus Egg, 1862Lordship Lane Station, by Camille Pissarro, c. 1870The Railway, by Édouard Manet, 1872Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, by Claude Monet, c. 1877Le Pont de l'Europe, by Gustave Caillebotte, 1880Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the [Arc River Valley], by Paul Cézanne, 1882-1885The Lineman, by L A Ring, 1884States of Mind I:The Farewells, by Umberto Boccioni, 1911The Anxious Journey, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913Railroad Sunset, by Edward Hopper, 1929Train in the Station, by Raoul Dufy, 1935Time Transfixed, by René Magritte, 1938Rolling Power, by Charles Sheeler, 1939

In the United Kingdom the Guild of Railway Artists is a group of painters of railway subjects.