Trains made their way into art history with French Impressionism and the French Industrial Revolution. Edouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte, among others, made many paintings of trains that became the primary influence of Geare’s “Train Series.” Other influences include Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. In his painting, entitled “Till the Wheels Fall Off” there is the depiction of a contemporary Union Pacific cargo train seemingly coming apart as it travels across the canvas and the American landscape.