O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line: A Photographic Portrait of America's Last Great Steam Railroad

O. Winston Link (1914 2001) photographed the last major steam railroad in America, the Norfolk and Western, in 1955 60. A successful advertising photographer as well as a superb and innovative technician, Link undertook and financed the project on his own, working with the cooperation of the railroad. He chose to make most of his photographs at night, which required him to deploy massive flash arrays and he set up his shots meticulously in advance. His brilliant black and white prints established him as an important American photographer and specific images have become modern classics. In addition to his black and white photography, Link shot the railroad in colour during the day. Tony Reevy, administrator at the UNC Institute for the Environment and advisory editor of Railroad History, is an author who has published two books, four chapbooks of poetry, and more than 100 poems and articles. He often publishes articles on American railroading, including features about railroad photographers Lucius Beebe, Jim Shaughnessy, David Plowden, and Walker Evans.