Transportation and Abundance, Who Is a Woman (of Course)

While at the Ramsey County Court House/Saint Paul City Hall recently, I noticed a bit of carved artwork that hadn't caught my eye before, probably because it flanks one of the doors I don't usually use:


As I've written before about the artwork built into this building (here and here, plus some good news on changes here), the images are short on women. So seeing this mighty farming sister, sickle in hand, made me feel a little better.

But I confess it was the train and the word TRANSPORTATION that caught my eye first, hard as that may be to believe, given the scale difference between the word and the woman. There's a train on my City Hall and I didn't even know it!