Knox shares how the native peoples he encountered in South America were quite fearful of the steam locomotives and saw them as great and powerful demons. This demon train drawing illustrates how he believes they must have viewed the first train they encountered. This copyright free train image is quite fun for the snarling look on its “face” and flames coming out of the sides.
This image and a number of others are from the 1885 work The Boy Travellers in South America. The author, Thomas Wallace Knox (1835-1896), did not identify an illustrator.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
