The Wayback Machine: September 2011: What do you make of this?

Back in September, as I drove across Nebraska, I stopped at the Union Pacific Railway Yard in North Platte.  It was pretty cool.  And I forgot about this little gem until recently.

Up on the observation deck was a tiny model of the rail car repair shop that an old employee (I think) had made:

Clearly a labor of love to spend so much time on the little buildings and railway cars and employees, no?

But wait...  Look closer...  Does that one little plastic guy have a gun?  And is he pointing it at the railway worker?!  Yes he is!

A closer look at the model reveals little plastic men with guns all over the shop, menacing little plastic workers, and calling to mind the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894.  There's even a man down!

A close-up of the diorama.

Since I failed to find out what that was all about while I was at the railway yard, we are left to wonder... Is this a subversive pro-union diorama?  Perhaps a warning to lazy or uppity railroad workers that they better get back to work?  Maybe the artist ran out of supplies, and had to paint a bunch of the Little Green Army Men?  Or perhaps the gun-toters are there to pull off a great train robbery?  Alas, we'll probably never know.