This week's theme: Trains

Continuing in an industrial theme, this week Art Of The Day is featuring trains. Oh, those ribbons of track that have linked coasts, countries and cultures. Those iron horses that carried the adventurous to new landscapes and new lives. If we look past the romantic we see that trains were critical in expanding and industrializing our world. Goods and products could easily be taken from their point of origin to the consumers. Workers could easily travel to areas where there was land to farm or industries in which to work. The railroad made more parts of the world accessible, more opportunities available and created our mobile societies.

-Melissa Morton