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One of my favorite pictures. It is of a locomotive

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JD Seller

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This is the N&W 1218 locomotive. This was shot on its normal run. The picture is not staged. It may have been timed but it is an actual picture of the train on its normal run.

Planes, trains,and automobiles. Things that made this county GREAT!!!!



The N&W 1218 and the N&W 611 are still around. They both are in a museum in Virginia.



I have many times wished that I had been born fifty years sooner. I liked how things used to be. Yes there where hard times but things where simpler too.
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I have two of O.W. Link's books. They are both full of pictures of Norfolk & Western steam trains. He put a lot of time and effort into setting up for those great photographs. I think he used an 8x10 view camera for most of them, made an 8x10 negative, great sharpness and detail.

"Peabody's coal train has hauled them away"('Paradise 'by John Prine).

Garry
 
Bingo.

O. winston Link and the Norfolk Western.

The jet age has begun and the steam locomotive exits, stage right.

Dean
 
Awesome photo.

I've seen 1218 in action.

The convertible is a 50 or 51 Buick

Dean
 
When I was a kid in the mid 40s, six, seven, eight years old. dad would let me go with him to town about every Saturday. After he delivered eggs, he would go to the local feed and seed store to catch up on local happenings.This was about half a block from the train track,so I would go and stand on the bridge over the tracks and watch the trains go by. Some would have two or three locomotives and pull over a hundred cars. It sure did get smokey in that part of town!
 
The 611 pulled a passenger train called the Powatan Arrow from Cincinati, Oh to Norfolk Va. It had a domed observation car. I saw it many times as it came through my home town when I was growing up. There is a group that is trying to raise the money to put it back in service for rail excursions.
 
Welding man look at my earlier post it is about the 611. What town where you from??? My Aunt lived in Seaman,OH.
 
Great video and spectacular audio.

I saw the 765 Berkshire in Lawrenceburg, IN about 30 years ago.

Dean
 
There is some great utube video of the enormous N&W Y6b mallets (compounds) hauling coal on the net.

Below is a sample.

Note the enormous low pressure cylinders mounted ahead of the smoke box for tunnel clearance.

Dean
Hauling Coal
 
Kind of a train buff myself. For those of you who have access to RFD channel on Dish or DirecTV, they run an hour program every Monday afternoon at 5 central time. Worth learning how to program your DVR or TIVO.
Mostly steam, but occasionally run a segment on full electrics or diesels.
This week's program featured a U P 4-6-6-4 & a N&W 2-6-6-4.
Would liked to have seen a U P 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, but think they are all scrapped now.
Willie
 
there are still 3 or 4 big boys left they are at museums here and there I read an artical on those monsters once and as I recall a few have been saved and are at railroad museums I cant recall where though
 
Suggest you do a search on Allegany Locomotives. I happened to be in the railroad museum in Baltimore and thought I was looking at a Mallard--it was an Allegany. HUGE.
 
Actually there 8 of the U.P. big boys on display and in museums. Check out "steam locomotive.com" - lots of info there. One of these is planned to be restored by the U.P.R.R.
 
The photgraph was made by O. Winston Link. He took many photos of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, many of which were done at night with elaborite lighting systems which took hours to set up. There are many places online where you can buy his pics, one of which is allposters.com.
 
We've got a railroad museum here in Rochester that I am a member of. We actually run locomotives and other stuff between our museum and another museum about a mile and half away. I've had a chance to drive one - pretty neat. Being part of saving the old train equipment is a lot like saving the old tractors. Lots of history for both.
 
A little town in Virginia,called Rich Creek. Virginian railway ran through the town and had a depot there. It was on one side of the New River. N and W tracks were on the other side of the river and the 611 ran on the other side of the river. It stopped at Narrows VA.Three miles up the river.
 
Heck with the train. How about the good old days of taking your girlfriend to the drive in movie. Butttttt the convertible is definitely out, especially with the top down. Need something solid where you could steam up the windows.

Around my home town, the movies had old guys walking around wit flash lights. When they saw a car with the windows steamed up they would hurry over and shine the light inside. Don't think they were jealous do you? Naw......no way. Grin.

After my wife and I married we went back to some of our parking spots with our marriage license. Shucks, not a one of those bums came snooping around. Ha!

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 21:52:13 09/09/13) I have two of O.W. Link's books. They are both full of pictures of Norfolk & Western steam trains. He put a lot of time and effort into setting up for those great photographs. I think he used an 8x10 view camera for most of them, made an 8x10 negative, great sharpness and detail.

"Peabody's coal train has hauled them away"('Paradise 'by John Prine).

Garry
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I live just 2 miles from "Paradise". Of course the town is no longer there.
 
O Winston Link's photography was one of a kind. I have one of his books. You can look at it a thousand times and see something different every time. If you have any interest in trains or Americana in general you will love all of his photographs.

As far as John Prine, I have seen him in concert twice. John is one amazing story teller and isn't afraid to write about the good the bad and everything in between.

Thanks for posting.
 
There is a C&O Allegheny 2-6-6-6 in the Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.

The six wheel trailing truck was a ponderous thing, supporting an enormous firebox. The Allegheny's boiler was rated at 7500 HP, the largest of any steam locomotive.

Though too late to be of consequence, it was a premonition of what might have been.

Dean
 
That very thing happened to me,back in the 60's with the flash light guy, at the drivein. We left and parked somewhere else. The next guy with a flash light was a police officer. Just can't win. Stan
 
I had never seen this photo before. Did some searching and this came up:

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Make me wonder about how many things I see every day that go over my head.
 
The pictured locomotive is UP 4-8-4 Northern No 844, a spectacular locomotive, itself. It is not a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy.

Dean
 
To see a "Yellowstone" type,(the name came from
the Northern Pacific Railroad) 2-8-8-4, off the
Duluth, Masabe, and Iron Range, go to the downtown
Depot in Duluth. It's inside, immaculaty restored.
 
There is one of the Big Boys being restored at the Union Pacifics facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming and it is going to be a two year restoration.
 
The couple had to be on good behavior knowing Winston Link was going to take their picture when the train arrived!
 
Richard .. What I the weather forcast for Tombstone late next week. Plan on heading your way Sat morning.
 
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