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Re: Winston Link - Last run

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Subject: Re: Winston Link - Last run
From: bluespark56@y...
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:24:12 -0000
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Mr. Link gave us some wonderful images. I would strongly recommend 
anyone not familiar with his work to check out the book Steam, Steel 
& Stars: America's Last Steam Railroad. I'm sure there are others 
with his work too.
He will be missed, but his work will live on.



--- In BRHSlist@y..., <hansons@b...> wrote:
> I've just received the following report from the Altamont Press 
mail 
> list:
> 
> 
> O. Winston Link dies at 86
> 
> A day after the historic Virginian Railroad passenger station 
burned 
> down, a much bigger blow was dealt to rail enthusiasts: 
Photographer 
> O. Winston Link died of a heart attack. He was 86. 
> 
> Link chronicled railroad life in the 1950s and became not only an 
> international name in photography, but also captured the last days 
of 
> the American steam locomotive. 
> 
> He had been sick for some time when he drove himself to the 
hospital 
> in Mount Kisco, NY, on Tuesday afternoon and suffered a heart 
attack 
> en route, said his publicist, Tom Garver. Link died before he got 
to 
> the hospital, Garver said.


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