Time exposure in a mail car from an era where mail was sorted upon snagging it from the depot as the train was moving. This was on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth Ga.
The film was daylight type but I was able to meter off a mailbag with the analyser and find a filter setting to zero out the tungsten lighting. I also dodged a bit on the sides to bring up the detail better.
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.
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.