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Metadata
Title |
Will A Museum Be Locomotive 1218's Final Stop? |
Dates of Creation |
August 15, 2000 |
Scope & Content |
Article in The Roanoke Times about the 1281 A-series locomotive which had recently been used in a photo shoot of O. Winston Link for Vanity Fair magazine. The article chronicles the history of the 1218 and the A-series and discusses the desire of the Virginia Museum of Transportation to have the 1218 in its collection. |
Year Range from |
2000 |
Creator |
Kittredge, Kevin |
Year Range to |
2000 |
Subjects |
Locomotives, Steam Photographs Steam engines |
Search Terms |
1218 A-class trains A-series 1218 Columbus, Ohio J-Series 611 Norfolk and Western Railway Norfolk Southern Portsmouth, Virginia Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus Roanoke shops Roanoke, Virginia Steamtown, Bellows Falls, Vermont The Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company The Roanoke Times Union Carbide Corp., Charleston, West Virginia Vanity Fair Magazine Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia Williamson, West Virginia |
People |
Bland, Susan, Public Relations Manager for Norfolk Southern Railway Link, Winston Conway Strickland, Kay, Executive Director, Virginia Museum of Transportation |
Collection |
O. Winston Link Museum Archives Collection |
Imagefile |
037\200706181.JPG |
Number of images |
2 |
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Object ID |
OWL2007.06.181 |
Extent of Description |
1-newspaper clipping, size 10 1/2" x 7 3/4"; 1-newspaper clipping, size 11 1/2" x 6 3/4" |