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Northshore October 2025
I was wrong about O. Winston Link’s extraordinary photographs of steam locomotives. Produced in the late 1950s, when most railroads had already made the switch from steam to diesel power, his images depict the last great steam engines working on the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Mistakenly, I thought that company had commissioned the series. In fact, Link’s five-year project of over 2,400 black and white negatives was entirely a labor of love. A commercial photographer working in New York City, Link was a train buff who decided to document the last working steam locomotives. To finance the endeavor, he produced and sold recordi
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