The O. Winston Link Museum occupies the restored former Norfolk & Western passenger station, a 1905 building on Shenandoah Avenue. The museum is devoted entirely to Link's photographs of the Norfolk & Western during the final years of steam (1955 to 1960) — black-and-white images, mostly taken at night using elaborate banks of flashbulbs strung along the line, that turned working railroad scenes into theatrical tableaux.
The collection includes hundreds of original prints, Link's cameras and lighting equipment, and explanatory exhibits on how the photographs were planned and made. The N&W passenger station itself, designed by Raymond Loewy in 1949, is part of the experience — a stripped-down modernist building that was the eastern terminus of the railroad's passenger service. The museum sits across the tracks from the Virginia Museum of Transportation and pairs naturally with a visit there.