Rural Retreat Depot is open today

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 Thank you, Dave. The article you wrote for The Arrow remains the best source for information about Link's work in Rural Retreat. The next Open Depot Day happens to fall on Dr. Pepper Day in Rural Retreat, Sunday October 23rd, from 2 until 6 PM, so in addition to Depot tours there will be live music and historic exhibits all around the Depot. 
Frank Akers 
    On Friday, October 14, 2022 at 08:11:33 AM EDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
  This is Link negative NW1634, Train 17, Birmingham Special, SB.  No number was recorded for the locomotive in Link's notes, but it is one of the four J's with modified rods.  The photo is clear enough to pick up that detail.  So, could be 611, or one of the other three.

Dave Stephenson

    On Friday, October 14, 2022 at 07:19:09 AM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
 Does anyone happen to know the loco # in this classic Link shot at Rural 
Retreat?

John Garner


Tis indeed a perfect day to visit us here at the Summit in Rural 
Retreat! The drive here from anywhere is stunning, with Fall colors 
popping out everywhere. The Depot is open today, October 9, from 2 until 
5 PM, and our trained docents, Heidi and Amy, will be there to guide you 
through our history museum and the restored 1860’s building. Frank Akers 
will be there as well, to provide his personal memories of his 
grandfather, Agent J. L. Akers, who was the subject of two of O. Winston 
Link’s favorite photos. Admission and a Dr. Pepper are free for our 
visitors. The Depot is about a mile south of Exit 60 off I-81,between 
Wytheville and Marion.

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