Planes, trains and automobiles.

Link had the advantage of being the staff photographer for the N&W and they would sometimes make "special" runs for his nighttime shots. Often the sync cables were sacrificed as they were laid across the tracks for a particular lighting effect.

A world, a country, a way of life that is gone with the wind. All that remains are the photographs of a time that has been erased by...the future.

Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago.

Too bad. They were, overall, better people with, generally speaking, a better culture. Not perfect, not ideal, just better.

All three of the Link books are worth reading. Also, there was a 1 hour video entitled "Trains that passed in the night" about Link and his train photos including interviews with Link and one of his assistants that is worth watching if you can ever track it down. Particularly the final 10 minutes (they try to setup a final shot and Murphy intervenes).

I don't think he was a staff photog (he had his own studio in NYC), but had the support of the N&W president and had keys to the call boxes so he could get warning of upcoming movements.

I know Links son, Conway and will show this to him.

Nice, so nice. Thank you!

That pic reminds me of Obamacare. Good idea, but poorly thought out and devoid of any foresight. The freight train is freakishly symbolic.