Lapsed engine cleaners.

No real reason for posting this apart from it's an image from my new-ish scanner and a little thank you to a certain gang of engine cleaners as well as trying out the new forum!
http://monkeyrail.fotopic.net/p60326365.html

 

That's a really good shot.

I love THIS one as well, even if it is a diseasel.

 

Wonderful and evocative stuff - some of the point - shoot - upload merchants should be made to consider the composition, industrial archeology content, capturing of the times - that went into those shots

You had a 1966 copy of Decline of Steam no doubt!

 

I did get one actually, but only two years ago! My namesake and I were into all that stuff but not as eloquently! It's what came naturally. My influence was Bill Brandt - as far as In know, he only took one railway picture - a steam train crossing Dean Street viaduct in the 1930s, backlit and very 'dark'.

 

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A certain gang of engine cleaners

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More of "after the after" shot. It was much cleaner than the "before" shot. And - much cleaner than the norm. The lads did go home now and then to their mammies!