Mountaineer-American Posted July 3, 2007 Share #1 Posted July 3, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The Powhatan Arrow, Norfolk & Western #611 currently exhibited at Roanoke, Virginia M2 + 1:2.8/35mm Summaron Ektachrome handheld, available light Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 Hi Mountaineer-American, Take a look here steam locomotive. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
azzo Posted July 3, 2007 Share #2 Posted July 3, 2007 Arlen, This is really nice and nicely captured too. Thanks for sharing. Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountaineer-American Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted July 4, 2007 Thanks, Azzo. Here's another shot of the same locomotive, 30 years earlier. Same camera & lens, on Kodachrome. The drivers are as tall as a man, as you can see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 4, 2007 Share #4 Posted July 4, 2007 Thanks for showing these; one of my favourite photographers is O. Winston Link. Glad to see that this loco survived. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountaineer-American Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share #5 Posted July 5, 2007 Pete, I concur. Link made magnificent train photographs. There is a museum of his photographs & cameras & equipment in Roanoke at the old railway station. The Powhatan Arrow was a passenger train I often rode as a boy in the 1950s in West Virginia. I went to your website & looked at your photographs. Your work is absolutely terrific. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEd Posted July 5, 2007 Share #6 Posted July 5, 2007 This is a great thread......awesome machine. Thanks for sharing. Ed. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 5, 2007 Share #7 Posted July 5, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Pete, I concur. Link made magnificent train photographs. There is a museum of his photographs & cameras & equipment in Roanoke at the old railway station. The Powhatan Arrow was a passenger train I often rode as a boy in the 1950s in West Virginia. I went to your website & looked at your photographs. Your work is absolutely terrific. I found their website a couple of years ago; lots of interesting info there. Also bought a couple of Link photo-books really cheaply from Amazon (UK), the images are absolutely stunning, many feature locos of the type in your shots. I'm a big Speed Graphic fan- these toy cameras will never amount to a hill of beans..... Do any of these beasts still run? In the UK we seem to have more steam trains working each year. Thanks for the comment on my LUG pages, just wish that I had kept more of my old negatives Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountaineer-American Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted July 6, 2007 Pete, I understand what you mean about keeping the old negatives. Wish I had more of mine. The Norfolk & Western RR ran the last regular-run steam locomotives in America. Mostly this was due to 2 things: fighting the cost to change over to diesel, also the train routes ran through the coal fields of West Virginia & they had good access to coal as fuel. The last regular-run steam train ran about 1960. I remember it. The Powhatan Arrow was brought up once for some memorial runs. I think it was about 1990 but can't be sure about that. Very few steam locomotives run in USA. Insurance costs are very high. There are a few on static display around the country but not as many as you'd think, considering how many thousands there were. Almost all were broken up for the steel. A few were sold to overseas countries for continued use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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