Locos vapeur - Chauffeurs et mécanos
The smoky world of steam locomotives, these "warm-blooded beasts" that Jacques Lacarrière spoke of, invaded Bernard Bathiat's childhood dreams. At the end of the 1950s, everything stopped. The black faces of the railway, railway workers, drivers and mechanics, no longer "knit" the magnificent Pacifics of the Compagnie du Nord or the Paris-Orléans...
So all that remains is the memory and the photos yellowed by time. How beautiful these machines are! Bernard Bathiat is a work of memory. Beyond a gallery of unpublished portraits of locomotives and tenders, throughout the pages, we follow the men, their daily work, their strange jargon.
Nostalgia is good and fortunately there are enthusiasts like Bernard Bathiat or these associations that restore old locomotives so that the flame of the "human beast", this infernal couple of man and machine, never goes out.
Product details
Author: | Bernard Bathiat |
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Details: | 96 pages, 23 x 16 x 0.6 cm / 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.24 in, paperback |
Illustrations: | profusely illustrated |
Publisher: | Editions Alan Sutton (F, 2005) |
ISBN: | 9782849103050 |

Locos vapeur - Chauffeurs et mécanos
Language: French
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