Engine Number 52 and Crew
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.5cm X 21.5cm, from a found vintage glass plate negative circa 1920.
The negative is an "ordinary" blue sensitive plate probably intended for contact printing on chloride paper. As such it is very dense and contrasty and prints somewhat imperfectly on modern bromide paper.
This Engine 52 is a Queensland B13 Class locomotive at the end of its working life pressed into service hauling sugar cane to the mill.
The dapper gent sporting a fob chain is the engine driver. At the front of engine is a more rumpled fireman charged with shovelling coal and keeping water up to the boiler. Its hard, hot work for both of them.