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Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
The O. Winston Link Museum is a museum dedicated to the photography of O. Winston Link, the 20th-century railroad photographer widely considered the master of the juxtaposition of steam railroading and rural culture. He is most noted for his 1950s photographs of steam locomotives at night, lit by numerous flashbulbs.
2001 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, dies (b. 1914). See also [ edit ]
Some of O. Winston Link's N&W steam-era nighttime photographs and audio recordings feature No. 611 during its revenue service, including: Link's Christmas Time at Seven-Mile Ford, Virginia photo shows No. 611 pulling the Pelican passenger train across the Holston River bridge near Seven-Mile Ford, Virginia, on the night of December 28, 1957 ...
As of 2023 it houses the city's visitor center, the Historical Society of Western Virginia, and the O. Winston Link Museum. [8] The three buildings were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [2]
[68] [69] Railroad photographer O. Winston Link made a cameo appearance in the film as the engineer driving No. 4501. [69] No. 4501 was the subject of the 2016 feature-length documentary And Then There Was One, which chronicles the history of the locomotive's career to that point. [70]
A person was killed when they crossed railroad tracks in Durham and was hit by an Amtrak train Saturday afternoon. Train 72 hit the person walking on the tracks just west of Durham at 1:01 pm ...
1807 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, is born (died 1875). [1] [2]1914 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, is born (died 2001).