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That is the caboose.

Caboose will be moved on this Tuesday (10th) to just next to the east side of station. Track panel is alreay in place

David Helmer

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>Is the caboose the one that is sitting on the old station tracks near the 

>shops now? I was up there a week ago and there was a restored N&W cab 

>sitting down there.

>

>Jason Greene

>Cumming, GA

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>> By _Kevin  Kittredge_ (mailto:kevin.kittredge at roanoke.com)

>> 981-3323

>> The Roanoke Times

>>

>> "Mission accomplished"

>> The O. Winston Link Museum, which opened in January 2004, has achieved its

>> fundraising goal, museum board member David Helmer said. Though the museum 

>> is

>> still seeking donations for a $1 million endowment, the roughly $3 million 

>> it

>> needed to pay for close to 300 of Link's famed railroad photographs, 

>> exhibits

>> and other expenses has been raised. "The museum is debt-free and has

>> developed a  sizable endowment," Helmer said.

>> Center in the Square handled the outside renovation work on the former

>> Norfolk and Western passenger station where the museum is located. Center 

>> will

>> meet its own fundraising goal of $6.8 million once $400,000-plus worth of

>> already-approved federal transportation funds is released, said Center 

>> president

>> Jim Sears. The museum's total cost was close to $9 million.

>> Link, a New York photographer who spent several years photographing the

>> waning days of steam locomotion on the N&W in the 1950s, died in 2001.

>>

>> Link's caboose

>> The Link museum, with the help of Norfolk Southern Corp. and Lee Hi Travel

>> Plaza, will install Link's prized 1950s-vintage N&W caboose at the museum 

>> over

>> the next few weeks. The caboose, to be installed on the east, or 

>> Williamson

>> Road, side of the building, will eventually be open to the  public."

>>

>>

>>

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