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O. Winston Link - A Happy Accident, Carefully Planned by Ken Johnson
From the website: GENIUS in photography often means a knack for being in the right place at the right time. For the commercial photographer and train buff O. Winston Link (1914-2001), that was Staunton, Va., in 1955. Having traveled there on assignment from his home in New York to photograph window air-conditioners for Westinghouse, he took a side trip to nearby Waynesboro, a stop on the last large steam-powered railroad in America, the Norfolk & Western. Over the next five years, until the railroad completed its conversion to diesel-powered engines, Link made more than 20 trips to Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, producing more than 2,400 images of Norfolk & Western trains, stations and related sites.
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