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The illustration style reminds me of a young children's book of trucks or machinery that I had.

IIRC, besides the normal fascination with big machines, the book seemed to glorify the machines and the idealized and determined workers operating them, a bit like propaganda posters from some other countries.

I think the book I had was from Japan. (Half my family is from Hawaii, and there was a lot of cultural cross-pollination as part of ordinary life.)

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The artist of these illustrations also drew the images of toy boxes, that's where you might recognize the style from?

If you go on their website, you can see that most of the toys are machines: https://www.tamiya.com/english/e-home.htm

We kinda forget about the people that make our cities efficient engines of capitalism. It's only when services stop (trash pickup, water, sewage, etc.) do we take notice of them.

Whether in capitalism or socialism, work needs to be done. The more work done, the more efficient the system is. Infrastructure workers doing great work don't always get the respect they deserve.

Agreed fully. The cultural values are interesting. For example, glorifying people doing good, beneficial work tells you something, and glorifying rich celebrities tells you something different.

These train illustrations are also bit of propaganda (not that I have any issues with them, they are awesome!).

> The illustrations of trains seen here are part of Project Toei, an initiative from the The Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation to highlight various aspects of the city’s incredible infrastructure.

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