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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.
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 ...
In 2010 and 2017, No. 475 was cosmetically altered to resemble its extinct sister locomotive No. 382 for Lerro Productions' Virginia Creeper photo charters as a tribute to O. Winston Link's photography work. [20] [21] In late 2018, it was taken out of service for its 15-year mandated Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) inspection and rebuild ...
O. Winston Link recorded the eastbound Pelican arriving in Rural Retreat, Virginia on December 24, 1957. The recording is noted as being one of the last recordings of a Norfolk and Western Class J locomotive as well as the chimes from the nearby church.
January 21 - O. Winston Link starts 5-year personal project to document steam operations on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States using flash photography. January 23 - Sutton Coldfield train disaster, England: a passenger train rounds a sharp curve too fast and derails; 17 people die as a result.
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[67] [68] Railroad photographer O. Winston Link made a cameo appearance in the film as the engineer driving No. 4501. [68] 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. [69]