Unexpected Loco in an Unexpected Tunnel

In June 2024, while on a bush walk in NSW Australia, where we often experience wild fires, I came across one of our native gum trees heavily disfigured from previous fire, yet still surviving albeit with a shell of its former trunk sustaining new growth. On the same trip, we took an excursion on an old steam railway line and got to see the locomotive switching ends on the train.
Two years prior, during Sydney’s annual light show spectacular call Vivid Sydney, there was a an old rail goods line re-purposed for a laser light and sound exhibit, in which the light of an oncoming steam train, with sound appeared. I managed to capture a scene containing this bright light.
While post processing the photo of the tree and some shots of the train, an idea came to me to create an imaginary scene where someone peering deep into the tree from a short distance outside, might be frightened to imagine an oncoming train in the abyss of this seemingly dead, but very much alive tree. But upon closer look, is the training coming at you, or has your mind deceived you ?