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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.
On May 8, 2010, No. 611 was put on temporary display in front of the former N&W Roanoke passenger station, now known as the O. Winston Link Museum for National Train Day. [125] In 2011, the Roanoke City Council nicknamed No. 611 The Spirit of Roanoke, which the VMT inscribed under the cab windows. [126]
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.
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
[23] [27] In 2000, the locomotive was moved out of the East End Shops and put on the turntable for a nighttime photoshoot, hosted by photographer O. Winston Link. [28] Link wanted No. 1218 to be exhibited near the former N&W passenger station in downtown Roanoke, which was planned to be converted into a museum that displayed Link's N&W photographs.
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In 2013 the paper was sold to Berkshire Hathaway, which in turn sold its BH Media holdings – The Roanoke Times included – to Lee Enterprises in 2020. [244] Beth Macy, author of the bestselling book Dopesick which was adapted into a 2021 Hulu miniseries of the same name, was a reporter at The Roanoke Times for 25 years. [245]
In 1992 N&W's successor Norfolk Southern moved into a new office building in Downtown Roanoke and donated the former offices to a nonprofit foundation. [5] The two wings comprising GOB–South were converted to upscale apartments in 2002, [ 5 ] while GOB–North is the home of the Roanoke Higher Education Center. [ 6 ]