Crossed by a milk train

Crossed by a milk train. A small locomotive engine with a misshapen smokestack, followed by an open car loaded with wood, and one passanger car. The Black (African American) engineer, keeping his left hand on the brake, stands up in exasperation, shaking his right arm holding a log, and shouts at a cow straddling the tracks ahead. Beside him, a Black youth (the stoker) also stands, shouts, and shakes his left upraised arm at the cow. Behind them (far right), the heads of four Black passengers lean out the window. At left, a ready-to-be-milked brown, horned cow calmly stands rooted on the tracks and gazes at the green pasture beyond

1880-1889 Alertness Commuter Cowcatcher Currier Ives Old-fashion Operating Railcar

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