LB2016.15.16

LB2016.15.16

Image shows an engineer at the controls of a locomotive moving through a railroad yard. With one hand he pulls the whistle while the other works another control. The Belfast-Moosehead Railroad driver wears the classic overalls and striped cotton engineer's cap. He is carefully dressed, however: for optimal functionality, suspenders double up supporting his overalls and he has cinched his baggy shirt sleeves- probably to keep them from inadvertently snagging one of the several protruding controls. This is one of a series of photographs staged to be used for an article in Life Magazine in 1950