I am sure Jimmy Lisle is correct in his memory of the Link cigar story.

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These accounts of O. Winston Link and cigar smoke remind me of a 
personal encounter involving both entities.  Back in my pipe and cigar 
smoking days (never cigarettes), I took a steam locomotive excursion 
train out of Roanoke on the N&W's Hagerstown line, and the consist 
included an open-door (with safety gates across the lower halves of the 
doorways) baggage car.  I had a lit cigar in this largely open-air car 
as I made my way to join two others at one of the open doors.  The other 
two at that doorway were Charley Woodson, N&W Manager Purchasing, who 
was a friend of Link, and Link himself.  In spite of the air and steam 
locomotive smoke swirling around the open doorway where the three of us 
stood as the train rushed along, Link detected my cigar smoke and told 
me in no uncertain terms where to go and to take my cigar with me.  He 
was a very forthright man.  I complied.

Gordon Hamilton

On 4/30/2020 11:16 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> On 4/30/2020 9:51 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
>> My misapprehension, placing the brakeman in the doghouse, depends on 
>> a much stronger cigar than seems likely.  There is a peculiar way 
>> that odors seem to carry farther in cold air, but a train’s length is 
>> unrealistic. Thanks for bringing me back down to earth.
>>
>> Neill
>>
> Neill,
>
>     I am guessing that you have never seen photos of how Mr. Link made 
> those recordings. He was filming/recording from the top of a caboose 
> that was right behind the tender. He was doing this right in front of 
> the cupola of the cab. Did you not hear how he mentioned sitting on 
> the grating of the roofwalk and how uncomfortable it was? Somewhere 
> there is a photo of the brakeman sitting in the cupola with Link right 
> outside the front. As I said, the "Bernoulli's Principle" and wind 
> eddys drug the stench of the "very power cigar" around.
>
> Jimmy Lisle
>
>
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