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Title |
A father and son watch a heavy Freight Extra at Montgomery Tunnel. |
Description |
A father and son watch a heavy Freight Extra at Montgomery Tunnel. This photograph, which Winston Link liked and used in his book, Steam, Steel & Stars, demonstrates one of the problems of his first flash power supply. There was no way to check to make sure that the various circuits were working. In this case, the bank of flashbulbs which was to have illuminated the middle ground just beyond the figures, failed to fire. As a result, C. E. "Jack" Hash of the N&W's Advertising Department and his son Dan, are almost totally lost in darkness as they watch Class A locomotive 1241 move out of the west portal of Montgomery Tunnel near Christiansburg, Virginia., about 27 miles west of Roanoke. For foreground lighting only the flashbulb in the child's lantern, carefully masked to reduce its power, has worked correctly and saved this part of the image from being totally black. Such flash failure occurred often enough for Link to build a new power supply shortly thereafter. 12/14/55. |
Object ID |
OWL2003.09.04 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Link, O. Winston |
Date |
12/14/1955 |
Search Terms |
Montgomery Tunnel Christiansburg, Virginia Virginia Class A, No. 1241 No. 1241 |
People |
Hash, C. E. "Jack" Hash, Dan |
Collection |
O. Winston Link Print Collection |
Imagefile |
032\20030904.bmp |
Number of images |
1 |