The good ol' Red Rattlers.

Back in the 1980s I was fond of scribbling caricatures of various forms of transport. These were generally done in black and white (more often than not using a common 'biro' for the line-work) and were for my own enjoyment as my professional work at that time had no relationship to transport.

None of the 'kept' drawings have been published other than on social media and one collage page can be viewed at the Australian Cartoon Museum on-line. Here is a straggler I found today whilst flipping through archived original art-work from the '80s'. The 'Red Rattlers' were the first rolling-stock employed by Victorian railways when electrification of the Melbourne suburban network began during the 1920s. They survived broadly unchanged as a species for more than 4 decades.

This cartoon was wholly black and white until something prompted me to use red ink to colour just the front end of this two-car set. Other colours were added in photoshop just to highlight the scribbly black lines in this presentation.