O. Winston Link
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"Ogle Winston Link", known commonly as "O. Winston Link", was an American photographer. He is best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk Southern/Norfolk & Western in the United States in the late 1950s. A commercial photographer, Link helped establish rail photography as a hobby. He also pioneered night photography, producing several well known examples including Hotshot Eastbound, a photograph of a steam train passing a Drive-in theater/drive-in movie theater, and Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole showing a train crossing a bridge above children bathing.

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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

Since I could only see the headlight of the locomotive in total darkness, I did not know until the flash was fired that I had captured this prize.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?