Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: O Winston Link The Man and the Museum Soft Cover Copyright 2004 44 pages O. Winston Link The Man and the Museum Soft Cover Copyright 2004 44 pages preserving through the Art of O. WInston Link's photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures, a record of the last years of steam power on the Norfolk & western Railway and the life it supported. CONTENTS Introduction 1 His Early Years3 His Early Work4 The N&W Railway11 After The N&W33 His Museum 39 The 0. Winston Link Museum is a unique place with a unique purpose: the preservation and exhibition of 0. Winston Link's remarkable record, in several mediums, of the Norfolk and Western Railway and the people and places along its lines at the end of the steam era. Winston Link was a man who loved a good story, and his massive documentation of the N&W let him tell the rich story of this last vestige of steam powered railroading, and how intimately it touched the lives of the people who lived along the tracks or who labored to maintain these great machines. In taking on this project, Link reached far beyond the images he created for his commercial clients. For them he made fine photographs of what they wanted, but in his deeply personal record of the N&W, Link created the photos he desired to make: his vision of what he thought of as the perfect railroad. Winston Link achieved his goal. He created a unique series of photographs, recordings and films that not only preserves the appearance and the sounds of this last major American railroad to operate exclusively with steam power, but he also made a precious and irreplaceable record of people and places in the Appalachian region that would otherwise have vanished forever. But there was a long path between the creation of these photos and their final preservation and exhibition in the 0. Winston Link Museum. This is a story that at times seems more like a novel than real life. After an initial exhibition of some of the early N&W photos in Link's New York City studio, they were rarely seen, other than a few in railfan magazines and other publications. It was not until 1983, more than 28 years after Link began working on the project, that these photos received their first art museum exhibitions. It was at this time too, that Winston met and later married a woman who, while professing her deep interest in his career, began to misappropriate his photos and his money. Winston Link removed the irreplaceable N&W negatives from his home only days before his wife barred the door. When he recovered his house following their divorce, he found that it had been stripped of his cameras and many negatives, photos and other artworks. It was such a serious loss that Winston's ex-wife was later arrested, indicted for grand larceny, convicted and has been twice sentenced to spend years in prison. Much of what she took has never been recovered, but the N&W negatives were safely stored in a bank vault. In Roanoke too, the course of the future museum could not have been imagined. The elegant little passenger station in the N&W's headquarters city, renovated in the late 1940s from plans created by noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy's firm, continued to serve its function well. Its decline into abandonment and dereliction started with the termination of all N&W passenger service in 1971. The grand interior spaces were divided into little offices for railroad functions, but gradually the building was vacated and by 1992 it stood completely empty and unused. In late 1999, the idea of a museum devoted to Winston Link's photographs was first proposed in Roanoke. The people of the Roanoke Valley and members of the committee to develop the Museum were saddened when Winston Link died of a heart attack in January 2001, while the museum was still in development. The trustees of his estate agreed to the continuation of the museum project, and fund raising for the restoration of the building and creation of the 0. Winston Link Museum began later that year. These efforts were successful, and the 0. Winston Link Museum opened in the restored station in January 2004. Here is the Winston Link story, and the story of the creation of the 0. Winston Link Museum. All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges Postage rates quoted are for shipments to the US only. 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Price: 40 USD
Location: Talbott, Tennessee
End Time: 2024-02-28T23:23:22.000Z
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