This nice painting is one of the railway related paintings in the Provencal Restaurant Castel Fleuri, located a few steps from the Carnoules station.
The train pulled by the steam locomotive may be heading for Marseille on the Nice - Marseille part of the PLM line, or may have arrived from Gardanne, on the Gardanne - Carnoules line.
Today the steam has disappeared but the Maures mountains in the background, the station building and the water tower are still there.
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