Last Steam Railroad in America, The From Tidewater to Whitetop O Winston Link

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Last Steam Railroad in America, The From Tidewater to Whitetop O Winston Link
 
The Last Steam Railroad in America  photos by O Winston Link, text by Thomas Garver
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket    Approx 11 x 11 3/4 inches Reflections from the lights on some photos.
Copyright 1995
144 Pages
Table of Contents
Prologue 6
Man And Machine Out Of Time     15
The Domestic Railroad    32
Thunder On The Blue Ridge     51
A Color Portfolio    66
A Day On The Abingdon Branch    92
Winston Link: A Note On His Life     132
Acknowledgments    144


Between 1955 and 1959, Link traveled up and down the Norfolk & Western's divisions, taking pictures of the trains, towns, and people who worked on the railroad and lived beside it. Published here for the first time are photographs he made in daylight, as well as at night and on the branches of the railroad not covered in his first book, Steam, Steel & Stars.
127 illustrations including 24 plates in full color.

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