Mice & Men

Saturday morning at Culmstock, ‘Deliberation’ Dave and ‘over and out, Roger have evacuated the locomotive cab due to a mouse being spotted hopping out of the coal bunker. Dave and Roger, despite being tough locomotive men of the steam era are terrified of mice and other small rodents. 

But luckily Bob Geeza Cat is to hand to see off the mouse, or more than likely just enjoy a mid morning snack after a bit of feline sporting cruelty, something that most cats are experts at. However, Bob is rather more interested in the cabside locomotive number, which rather than being a separate cast plate, it appears to have been stamped into the side of the engine. He ponders on how it was done, was it pressed into the metal plate or is the cabside moulded? 

The set up for today’s photo used a mid-1970s Soviet era 50mm Jupiter 8 lens (39mm screw thread) mounted on a mirrorless camera. These lenses designed for 35mm rangefinder cameras don’t focus very close, so a close up ‘filter’ was attached temporarily using a high tech engineering approach. 

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