Museum Honors Photographer's Fondness for Trains

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ROANOKE, Va. -- Photographer O. Winston Link stuck close to the railroad in the 1950s when Norfolk & Western's last steam locomotives were chugging through the Appalachian Mountains.

He knew it was the end of an era. With a back seat full of equipment, Link would spend hours waiting for the trains, illuminating the night with a constellation of flashbulbs that captured ghostly images of the smoke-breathing machines.

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Museum Honors Photographer's Fondness for Trains

Link's pictures remained in obscurity until the 1980s, when he was nearly 70, and today most of his work still hasn't circulated past his closest admirers. But in a tribute to the trains that helped build ...

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