Mail Car

Nice to see a bunch of colour work today. I like this one a lot.

Good shot. It shows it all to anyone wanting to know how mail trains worked. Nice job on neutralising the tungsten but leaving just a hint of warmth which is natural.

A British documentary film maker called John Grierson made a great B&W short film called I think "Nightmail" just before WWII. It has gone down as a classic in low budget documentaries.

It showed the mail sorting wagon on the nightly Glasgow to London Royal Mail train. Essentially the same operation that was to be robbed some 25 years later in August 1963 and called the Great Train Robbery. The then biggest robbery in the annals of British crime. Later made into a film. Might even have made the newspapers in the U.S.

Just info you may be interested in - or not as the case may be.

pentaxuser

Yes it brings back memories of my grandfather who was an engine driver in our state railway system. The mail car was always the second last carriage, the last being the carriage that had an emergency hand operated brake system. The reason for being at the back, was to keep away from the soot coming out of the burner.

Very good colour printing.

Mick.