Steam, steel & stars : America's last steam railroad / photographs by O. Winston Link ; text by Timothy Hensley ; afterword by Thomas H. Garver.

Main entry:

Link, O. Winston (Ogle Winston), 1914-2001, photographer.

Title & Author:

Steam, steel & stars : America's last steam railroad / photographs by O. Winston Link ; text by Timothy Hensley ; afterword by Thomas H. Garver.

Publication:

New York : Abrams, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
©1987

Description:

144 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 28 x 32 cm

Notes:
"Times Mirror books"--Title page verso.
O. Winston Link meets the Norfolk and Western -- This railroad is a living thing -- Coal smoke down "the valley" -- Beauty and the beast on the Radford Division -- Behemoth's last breath : Pocahontas Division -- All aboard for the Virginia Creeper -- Afterword : O. Winston Link and his working method.

Summary:

Ninety photographs with captions present the activities of the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last major railroad in America to use steam power. Most of the photographs were taken at night, and Thomas H. Garver's afterword includes description of Link's methods of flash photography.

ISBN:

0810916452
9780810916456
0810981858
9780810981850
0810925877 (paperback)
9780810925878 (paperback)

Subject:

Norfolk and Western Railway Company Pictorial works.
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Steam locomotives Pictorial works.
Photography of railroads.
Norfolk and Western Railway Pictorial works.
Railways.
Locomotives à vapeur Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de chemins de fer.
United States
Photographs

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
photobooks.
Illustrated works
Photobooks.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Hensley, Tim, author.
Garver, Thomas H., writer of afterword.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publisher.

America's last steam railroad

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 144169
Call No.: IDM; ID:87-B10615
Status: Available

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