"That photo strikes me on a couple of levels.
Initially, it evokes the distant past, when railroads were the best method of transportation to the Old West, when things
were so much simpler and technology was still pre-electricity.
But then, it also resembles (or IS, actually)
two mechanical, almost robotic-looking, hands clasping each other in a symbol of agreement or unity, of working together,
and suddenly the thought hits me: How is it that inanimate objects can appear so 'agreeable,' when Man, who is so much smarter
than a chunk of metal, cannot figure out how to co-exist with his own?
The Yin of the past, the Yang of the future.
It helps that the photo is b/w, too - evoking the early photography of the 1800s with the potentially 'post-apocalyptic'
grey of the yet unknown/future ..."
Tom Hofer
Graphics Dept.
Palisadian-Post