Link's Color photo

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I was searching the same resource and found the page for the pic &
description and it says Bonsack, VA:
http://linkmuseum.pastperfect-online.com/37479cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=C6A866C0-C988-42AC-84AA-135401896300;type=102

<http://linkmuseum.pastperfect-online.com/37479cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=C6A866C0-C988-42AC-84AA-135401896300;type=102>Steve
Herring

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> I looked on the Link Museum website for the image (and maybe more details).

> I was not able to find it as a stand alone image, but found it as shown in a

> newspaper article, and as a cover for Classic Trains magazine. If these are

> the correct images, I think the title for the image is "Highball for the

> Double Header".

>

>

>> http://linkmuseum.pastperfect-online.com/37479cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=4EAD271D-0565-4860-937C-001036681768;type=201

>>

>

>

>> http://linkmuseum.pastperfect-online.com/37479cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=CFA7057D-9EE0-48DD-9D94-822890684296;type=301

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>

> This image was also used on the Link's LP "Thunder on Blue ridge".

>

>

>> http://www.owinstonlinkrailwayproductions.com/Images/Slideshow/ThunderOnBlueRidge_big.jpg

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>

> - Roger Link

>

>

> On 09/01/2010 10:56 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>

>> Link made a famous photo called "highballing the hotshot" or something

>> like that. It was ostensibly made at Boaz, and shows Asst. TM Bill

>> Tanner (I believe) highballing doubleheaded As on the "House Car Run".

>> They'd left the A-tank off the lead A so both of them could be in the

>> picture.

>>

>> Trouble is, the shanty at Boaz was not next to the main line and had

>> slight differences from the one in the photo.

>>

>> Anybody know where that photo was actually made?

>>

>> Ed King

>>

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