I liked this picture a lot because of its iconic relation to the topic.
By this I mean there is a close correspondence between the image and the 
very idea of old technology.  It is symbolic, like a road sign.

The pictorial means are spare. The stricken engine is shown in profile. 
Its shape fills the frame. The embalming desert is suggested with a 
realistic but understated texture and a few sihouetted tuffs of grass. 
The distant hills are flatly toned, mounds of grey.  The hazy grey of 
the sky offers no relief from the drab malaise of the scene, the sense 
of isolation, and abandonment.

The distances of the landscape seem to mock the tilted engine. One set 
of antiquated, spoked wheels dangles uselessly in the air. The nose is 
pushed into the harsh desert terrain.

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