# Train

- By: Edward Mitchell Bannister (born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901)
- Date: ca. 1875-1880
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 6 x 8 1/4 in. (15.3 x 21.0 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=992)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b29ce2a105205939d1892c6b9ca73378.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Edward Bannister’s painting shows a train cutting through a rural landscape, where a railroad trestle interrupts the flow of the stream below. These familiar signs of progress in the nineteenth-century landscape highlight a concern shared by many of Bannister’s fellow painters, who worried that industrialization would soon destroy their nation’s natural beauty.