Class A Westbound with a Train of Empty Hopper Cars, Between Bonsack and Vinton, Virginia
Artist
O. Winston Link
(American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1959
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 5/8 × 19 3/8 in. (39.7 × 49.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 × 28 in. (63.5 × 71.1 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 number2023.26.29
On View
Not on viewLabel TextO. Winston Link American (1914-2001) CLASS A WESTBOUND WITH A TRAIN OF EMPTY HOPPER CARS Between Bonsack and Vinton, Virginia, 1959 L2004.11.99 Class A 1226 was moving smartly downgrade on the Blue Ridge Grade when Winston Link made an unusual double portrait. Normally he set up his two or three cameras together so that the photographs would have the same general point of view, even if using different lenses or films. In this case, he set up a camera well to the right of the one used to take this photograph and aimed it directly at the side of the locomotive. That photograph is titled Class A in a Hurry, and the locomotive's motion is blurred, as it is here. In each case, Link set the shutter speed at 1/200th of a second to capture the incredible dynamics of the motion of this huge locomotive at speed, from two different points of view. 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.
