"Takin' Twenty with the Virginian Brethren" by Skip Salmon

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A image of Skip was posted on railpictures.net. Skip is on the left
standing in aisle as conductor.

http://railpictures.net/photo/443766

- Roger Link


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Roger Link <link at nwhs.org> wrote:


> Last night I had the pleasure of "Takin' Twenty" with seven of the

> Brethren and Friends of the Virginian Railway. For Show and tell I took a

> couple photos from last week end's photo shoot at The Virginia Museum of

> Transportation. This event was sponsored by Lerro Productions (see their

> web site) and used the 1218 and 611 as well as other VMT rolling stock for

> a staged photo shoot. There were photographers from all over the country

> and overseas. The Roanoke Chapter NRHS moved the equipment around for

> Friday night, Saturday morning and night, and Sunday morning scenes. There

> were several actors from the RCNRHS, VMT and owners of period autos. The

> setting was in the forties and fifties complete with 'Rosie the Riveter',

> 611 passing a 'wig-wag" signal road crossing, passengers boarding RCNRHS PA

> coach #512 from a City Bus etc. Yours truly played a passenger conductor

> and all of the buttons on my uniform were Virginian Railway. I have posted

> one of the photos on this site. A photographer from Tokyo, Japan told me,

> of the thousands he took, this was his favorite.

>

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