New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.

Washing J Class 605 at Shaffers Crossing, Roanoke, Virginia

Artist O. Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)

CultureAmerican

Date1955

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 19 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (49.5 × 49.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 28 5/8 × 24 1/8 in. (72.7 × 61.3 cm)

InscribedSigned and dated by the artist in pencil on the verso of the print. Artist's Studio stamp on the verso of the print.

Credit LineGift of Susan and David Goode

Object number2021.50.1

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Not on view

DescriptionThis is a photograph of a train. Back of train visible behind steam in center of foreground.

Label TextWASHING J CLASS 605 AT SHAFFERS CROSSING Roanoke, Virginia, 1955 L2004.11.1 872,600 pounds of engine, N&W's fastest passenger locomotive, pokes her nose out of steam and kerosene mist thrown up by a washing machine. Wilfred Jones, Jr. gives the running gear an extra blast to points the washer doesn't reach. All N&W engines get a bath whenever they turn around or take coal at Roanoke. Dirt on engines is a deposit of diesel soot thrown off by C&O and Virginian locomotives that run parallel to the N&W in many places. Edited By: DS Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 07/25/2005Exhibition History"Norfolk and Western Railway Photographs by O. Winston Link," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., July 1 - December 31, 2005. Published ReferencesPhotographs by O. Winston Link, text by Thomas H. Garver, _The Last Steam Railroad In America: From Tidewater To Whitetop_ (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995), 24.