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1. Engine 1218 Comes Home - January 25, 1996

   Article in The Roanoke Times about the return of Norfolk Southern's Class A No. 1218 steam locomotive to Roanoke from Birmingham, Alabama. The article mentions that the Virginia Museum of Transportation had requested that Norfolk Southern donate the 1218 to the museum, but that Norfolk Southern had not made a decision yet.

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Engine 1218 Comes Home - January 25, 1996

   Article in The Roanoke Times about the return of Norfolk Southern's Class A No. 1218 steam locomotive to Roanoke from Birmingham, Alabama. The article mentions that the Virginia Museum of Transportation had requested that Norfolk Southern donate the 1218 to the museum, but that Norfolk Southern had not made a decision yet.

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. The Man Did Not Think Small - December 7, 2003

   A Roanoke Times article published approximately a month before the opening of the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke. The article discusses the negotiations with Mr. Link to make the museum possible. It contains a photo of O. Winston Link posed on the 1218 steam locomotive taken as part of a photo shoot for a Vanity Fair magazine article in August 2000. (Article is on the same physical page as OWL2003.32.23.132.01).

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. The Pocahontas - A photo of the Norfolk & Western passenger train, The Pocahontas, powered by a 611 locomotive as it passes over the Roanoke River at Elliston, Virginia in 1943

   1990.69.1186

   Record Type: Photo