This is a reversed relief image of a train (4-8-4 steam locomotive, tender, and five cars) on a track and passing a signal. The words "the Gospel Train" are spelled in reverse, the title of a song, perhaps of African-American traditional origin, and…
A bookplate created for the Hamilton Club Library of Chicago, for the Rathbone Memorial.
This bookplate is also part of the special collections department in the Kent State University Library: http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/printing/wiechel.html
The Gordon Lester Ford Collections, presented by his sons, Urnthington Chaucer Fund and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library. The artist is unknown.