before and after of the famous location where O. Winston Link photographed “Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper”

O. Winston Link's “Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper”  

Old Maude, with her sledge load of oak stove-wood, just happened along as the train was approaching, and Link took advantage of the situation. He asked brothers Gene and Roy Hampton, who were hauling the wood to the family's farm nearby, to wait a few minutes for the train.

The Norfolk &Western filed abandonment papers and railroad operations ceased in March,1977. The track was sold for scrap and the old line is now the Virginia Creeper tracks to trails hiking biking walking trail

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I posted about the Virginia Creeper trail, and this railway station before, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/08/virginia-travel-writers-and.html

and the hurricane flood damage https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/damascus-virginia-iron-bridge-showing.html

and O Winston Link's photography https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2024/01/ogle-winston-link-dalhouse-cleans.html