“You can’t move the sun, and you can’t even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.”
~ O. Winston Link
Winston did more than document the last days of the steam engine. He was driven to take it one step further. Through meticulously staged scenes—often lit with carefully placed strobes—he brought people into the foreground: kids, adults, families, friends, caught mid-gesture as the trains thundered past. By placing human life alongside these fading machines, Link captured something far larger than the railroad itself: the rhythm, warmth, and shared experience of a culture on the verge of disappearing.
