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1. Boaz Siding, the Honey Hole. - Boaz Siding, the Honey Hole, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Grade. The Blue Ridge Grade, a few miles east of downtown Roanoke, Virginia, is a 1.2% grade stretching for eight and a half miles. Until the N&W's merger with the Virginian Railway in 1959 offered easier access to Norfolk, Virginia, Blue Ridge was the last big climb before the long descent to Tidewater. The N&W kept Class Y6 pusher locomotives stationed at Boaz Siding to help heavy coal and merchandise freights over the grade. The spot was quite pretty, with a little table under a willow tree by a little stream. The engine crews kept it tidy, but there were no sanitary facilities there, so the place earned the ironic nickname "The Honey Hole." In one of his most theatrical images, Winston Link has carefully set the scene. To the left, the engineeer and fireman finish their coffee as their locomotive steams quietly behind them, while the caboose of the next train to be pushed over the grade rolls slowly to a stop. Link even provided a special lantern for the people on the caboose. It was wired with a flashbulb and handed up to them as the caboose was passing the pusher locomotive's tender. This was a photograph the photographer enjoyed because of the way in which the willow tree draped over the scene of the locomotive and men.

   OWL2003.09.21

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2. Portrait of the Past - November 30, 1995

   Article in The Roanoke Times in advance of O. Winston Link's return to Roanoke to sign copies of his book "The Last Steam Train in America." Based on an interview with Mr. Link, the article discusses Mr. Link's love for trains, his project to photographs steam engines in the 1950's, and his legal battles with his second wife. It includes a photo of Mr. Link and several photos including "Green Cove", "Honey Hole", and "Inside Green Cove Station / ...

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3. Portrait of the Past - November 30, 1995

   Article in The Roanoke Times in advance of O. Winston Link's return to Roanoke to sign copies of his book "The Last Steam Train in America." Based on an interview with Mr. Link, the article discusses Mr. Link's love for trains, his project to photographs steam engines in the 1950's, and his legal battles with his second wife. It includes a photo of Mr. Link and several photos including "Green Cove", "Honey Hole", and "Inside Green Cove Station / ...

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4. The Old Print Shop Portfolio - 2001

   In the catalog titled "The Old Print Shop Portfolio", volume LX, #6, Robert K. Newman has written an article reporting the death of O. Winston Link. The cover of this issue has a copy of the Link print "The 40-stall Shaffers Crossing Roundhouse", and pages 146-151 have various copies of other Link photographs. There are three copies in this folder.

   Record Type: Archive