Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has a little confession to make. He is a train nut. He loves trains. He loves pictures of trains. He can spend hours and hours building railroads with the help of his trusty “Railroad Tycoon” game. So, it disturbs him that the development of an O. Winston Link museum passed beneath his radar. And he had to read about it on Virginia Postrel’s blog to find out about it.

Of all the railroads in the country, your Maximum Leader has always loved the old Norfolk & Western. (The Norfolk & Western is now a component of the much larger Norfolk Southern Corporation.) It always made money. It built its own locomotives. And it ran on coal until the mid-1960s. And in the late 50’s the N&W let a commercial photographer named O. Winston Link travel the road and capture the passing age of steam. Your Maximum Leader has two books of Winston Link’s photos of the N&W. He also as a beautiful framed photo by Link in his office. Now, He will have to travel to Roanoke, VA to visit the museum.

Carry on.