The O. Winston Link Museum is offering a new book of mr. Link's photos.
You can order it here: http://www.linkmuseumshop.com/?utm_source=Life+Along+The+Line+%231&utm_campaign=Book+%231&utm_medium=email
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Thanks to Feltonhill for the following information:
There's also a CD of new Link recordings in "Along the Line", the first since "Mainline to Panther" in 1977. Not just filler, it has 50 minutes and 21 tracks, all new stuff, right from Link's original recordings. It's geared more to people, their involvement with the railroad (as is the book), and Link himself, but there's still plenty of railroad action.
Jim:
We visited the Link Museum last summer on our way back from PA. Very nice museum and time very well spent!
I'm curious, however. Since you work out of the Roanoke area, how many of Link's photo locations would be recognizable today?
Thanks,
Curt
Curt,
Since Link started on my district, I can recognize all of the locations on my line. Because many of the structures of the day are gone and almost sixty years of tree growth, it may take some doing the recognize all of the locations. I do know that the Drive-In is gone and the current appearance doesn't jump out at you in a picture.
Thanks Jim! Since visiting the museum last year, I've been kind of kicking around in my mind about maybe taking another trip up that way at some point and trying to locate some of the photo locations.
Curt
Curt,
Here is a book on the subject of Link's haunts. You can order it at the site below.
| Following the OWL's Footsteps | ||
| A guidebook to the sites photographed by O. Winston Link Following the OWL’s Footsteps is a guidebook to the sites photographed by the late O. Winston Link along the Norfolk & Western Railroad in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. Following Link's footsteps, the author traveled up and down the Shenandoah Valley, across Southern Virginia and even rode a bicycle on the Virginia Creeper Trail to identify the sites where Link took his pictures. Once a site was located, photos were taken to show what the site looks like today. Included are locations and directions to each OWL photo location in Steam Steel & Stars and The Last Steam Railroad in America. 162 pages, softcover with color photographs Written by NWHS member <cite>John C. Abbott</cite> |
Excellent! Thanks Jim!
Curt
