In the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link decided to document the end of an era — steam-powered trains in pictures and sound recordings. Link’s assistant recalls some of the scenes they captured in the Virginia mountains.

The O. Winston Link Museum is located in Roanoke.
[Read][ReadMe] (NPR’s All Things Considered)

[ReadMe]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4585996&sourceCode=RSS