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   Brakeman J. M. "Skutch" Stevens stoking the coal burning stoves used to provide heat for the passenger cars on the Abingdon Branch. The stove was bolted to the floor.

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2. Digital inkjet print taken from O. Winston Link's original negative. Engine 611 makes a turn around the bend, surrounded by a rainly landscape, a slight hill in the background.

   2019.29.31

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3. 201 Arriving at Damascus, Virginia - Train 201, with Engine 396, arriving at Damascus, Virginia.

   OWL2007.08.346

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4. 201 Arriving at Damascus, Virginia - Train 201, with Engine 396, arriving at Damascus, Virginia.

   OWL2007.08.347

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5. Abindgon Branch, West Jefferson Passenger On Board Passenger Car - West Jefferson and near Nella, passengers on broad passenger, Abingdon Branch; kids and older women. There was a field trip on the train from Bristol Junior High School.

   OWL2007.04.1425

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6. Abingdon - Engine with tank car, coal car, and box car, passing a creek near Abingdon, Virginia.

   OWL2007.08.396

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7. Abingdon - Mixed train through field and trees near Abingdon, Virginia.

   OWL2007.08.394

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8. Abingdon - Mixed train with freight, hopper, and coal cars passing through field and trees near Abingdon, Virginia.

   OWL2007.08.395

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9. Abingdon Branch Class M Locomotive 429 changing direction on a "Wye" in West Jefferson. - Abingdon Branch Class M Locomotive 429 changing direction on a "Wye" in West Jefferson. A "wye" was the easiest way to turn a locomotive. The locomotive would head up oneleg of the "Y", the switch at the spur would be thrown and the locomotive would back down the other leg of the "Y" and out onto the main track, but headed in the oposite direciton.

   OWL2004.26.02

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10. Abingdon Branch Conductor Ralph White and laundry on the line. - Here, Ralph White, the conductor of the small mixed freight and passenger train, contemplates the engine as the train's brakeman prepares to set off a freight car on a siding in Damascus, Virginia. Out of respect for the freshly washed laundry hung so daringly close to the tracks, the locomotive will slip by without making smoke.

    OWL2002.08.05

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11. Abingdon Branch Conductor Ralph White helps Janet Dunne. - Serving in his public role as conductor of the train, Ralph White helps Janet Dunne from Train 202 at the stop in Damascus, Virginia. She was taking piano lessons there and had traveled from Taylor's Valley, less than seven miles south. She spent the night in Damascus and returned to Talyor's Valley on Train 201 the following morning.

    OWL2003.08.32

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12. Abingdon Branch Conductor Ralph White looking at circus and movie posters. - Ralph White, the Abingdon Branch's regular conductor, looks at some posters while the locomotive is being turned and the train readied for its return from West Jefferson, North Carolina to Abingdon, Virginia. The back of this print was signed by O. Winston Link and Conchita Mendoza Link.

    OWL2004.28.06

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13. Abingdon Branch Doubleheaded Train No. 201 leaves Green Cove. - With the throttles barely cracked and the locomotives all but blowing smoke rings, doubleheaded Train No. 201 southbound leaves Green Cove, Virginia. The train will have to pick up speed, however, to take on the three-percent grade for the next few miles to White Top, Virginia. The second locomotive, Class M 396, was normally head in reserve at the roundhouse in Bristol, Virginia and used infrequently on the run.

    OWL2003.16.01

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14. Abingdon Branch Doubleheaded Train No. 201 passing Brown's Bottom. - Double header through Browns Bottom. The two figures, Stout and Phipps, loading shucked corn into a horse drawn cart as train #201, bouble headed, moves south in the background. Printed posthumously.

    OWL2003.09.09

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15. Abingdon Branch Earl Carper, the Baggage and Express Messenger. - Earl Carper handled all baggage and express shipments sent via the Abindgon Branch. Even as late as the 1950's, smaller shipments of the sort Carper is moving out of the baggage car door were often shipped through the Railway Express Agnecy. Printed posthumously

    OWL2004.15.01

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16. Abingdon Branch Engine 382 Leaves Damascus, Virginia - Abindgon Branch, engine #382 leaves Damascus; this is the large maple tree on White St. Color version, NW36K used in Last Steam Railroad In America.

    OWL2007.04.1208

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17. Abingdon Branch Engineer Joe McNew buys a copy of "Grit" from Jerry Witherspoon. - Joe McNew, engineer hands Jerry Whiterspoon, a local boy for West Jefferson, North Carolina, a bill to buy Grit, the famous magazine intended for rural and small town readers which was then widely sold by young "newsboys." The magazine had been in continous publication since 1882.

    OWL2002.07.11

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18. Abingdon Branch Engineer Joe McNew spots Locomotive 429 under the water tank. - Engineer McNew has turned the locomotive on a wye and is moving to position the tender precisely under the spout on the water tank. After taking on water, McNew will pull the locomotive out and pick up the freight cars that will be going back north.

    OWL2002.08.07

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19. Abingdon Branch Joe Dollar waits for The Creeper. - South of Lansing, southbound Warrensville, Joe Dollar on bicycle, West Jefferson, N.C. Joe recalls that he was 15 when the photo was made. He continues to live in the area and operates earth moving machinery.

    OWL2003.07.05

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20. Abingdon Branch, last minute mail handed aboard Train No. 202. - Abingdon Branch, last minute mail handed aboard Train No. 202. The United States Mail was carried by the Abingdon Branch between Abingdon, Virginia and West Jefferson, North Carolina. Handling the mail was an important function of the railroad, and here some last minute letters and papers are handed aboard just as the train has begun to move.

    OWL2003.09.10

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