The collection · DiffusionLab

Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.

A Streamline Moderne diner and a RAM stick, test shot for a catalogue, VHS head switching noise. Work 9912.

A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.

The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

A scale of the land against a small engine in the style of a lamp bracket on a brake van end outside a signal box like a sentry hut, the fifteen inch era. Work 8945.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

A bin ladder going up into the dark, colour slide from a farm album, the wheat graded two northern that year, stereo pair on one plate. Work 8884.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.

Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page. Work 8533.

A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study. Work 8379.

A felt-shod control car hung below the hull below a stencilled frame number, the year of the forty cabins, matte fabric against polished tube. Work 8289.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

Modeller's prototype reference photograph of a humping engine at the top of the hump at a shed office door, colour print gone magenta, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 8208.

A trackside hut of mint boards, flat even light with no sun, the timetable ran on two trains a day, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 8200.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 8185.

A carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky. Work 8120.

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

A bunk of logs chained on a car and a skyline strung across a canyon under a topped spar tree, the last season of steam yarding, mammoth plate view photograph. Work 7916.

A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.

The opening years of the 1930s: infrared false colour plate of a robe dyed a green nothing grows beside a works locomotive. Work 7683.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7652.