The machine acts as a showcase of development in quiet harmony with traditional town life. Carnival Train A wave of contentment washes over the viewer. From the smoke stack trails, not a filthy by-product of industry, but a chain of clouds. A flag pushes up from the brow of the arch triumphantly. We are in a land where the center of civic life is no longer the church of Christ but the religion of the machine.
People disappear and even the train act as ornament.
The artist illustrates a world where technology lives in consonance with country life. There is no working class pinned before the relentless speed of a locomotive. From this picture of peaceful interaction of nature and technology, the elite class gains satisfaction in the splendid capabilities of mankind. Popular among the wealthy capitalists was the view that the machine, as a triumph of man's intelligence, was a symbol of benign hope and rich achievement. And while providing all of this for mankind, it flourished within the natural and historical countryside.