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Train engine with boiler removed.  Cass, W.V.   C/H 3131 Class C70 BH 1920.

401. Shay No. 7

402. Shay No. 1 at Cass Shop Yard

Shay train engines on tracks.

403. Shay No. 5 and No. 1, Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay train engine on tracks beside a hill.

404. Shay No. 4 at Coal Bin, Cass Scenic Railroad

Where tracks to Cass took off in the Mower Lumber Days.

405. Western Maryland Railroad Tracks, Spruce, W. Va.

Two Shay engines pulling passenger carts during Richmond NRHS trip, May 7, 1966 below Whittaker, W.Va.

406. Shay No. 7 and No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

407. Shay No. 7 and No. 4 Climbing up to Bald Knob, Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

408. Shay No. 3 and No. 1, Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view with a second Shay.  Painted Red- June 15, 1963.  Cass Station.

409. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders), Cass Scenic Railroad

Two Shay engines with crew standing beside them at water tank along tracks on mountain trip.

410. Shay No. 7 & No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

Derelict train engine.

411. Shay No. 12, Left Side View, Standing Ready to be Junked.

412. Shay No. 4 at Cass Water Tank, Cass Scenic Railroad

Front view of Baxter Auto Sales.  People and automobiles in front of the building.

413. Baxter Auto Sales, Cass, W. Va.

Six men in front of a log camp building, early 1900s or before.

414. Logging Crew at Log Camp

415. Logging Family Posing on their Front Porch

Mill, log pond, and four stacks.  W.Va. Spruce Lumber Co., Cass, W.Va. (Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad No. 5) Believed to been at time No. 1503 in operation.

416. Lumber Mill and Log Pond at Cass, W. Va.

Deer Creek sign to the right, houses sit on the left side of the tracks.

417. House and Deer Creek Town Sign on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Tracks.

Pictured with possibly his wife.

418. Shay locomotive and Engineer

419. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Springy Galford, Engineer, and Girl.

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

420. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Ralph Tallman, Engineer, and Girl.

Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

421. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

422. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

C.S.R. Engine at the switch.  Man bending over beside it.

423. Shay No. 4 at Switch with Caboose, Cass Scenic Railroad

View of East Cass showing Shorty's Restaurant and buildings.

424. East-Side of Cass, W. Va.

425. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

Lumber mill, train tracks, 6 smoke-stacks, and lumber piles.

426. Deteriorating Sawmill

One of 12 Shay Engines pulling log trains at Cass, W.Va. during 1920's.  Now Site of W.Va. Scenic Railway.

427. Shay with Load of Logs

Front view of a mill and stacks.  C&O train cars in front.

428. Sawmill

Lumber mill under contstruction.

429. Portion of Mill

430. Ditcher with Crew

3/4 front view of the Shay train engine No. 11.

431. Shay No. 11

'The hump you see is where it has been blasted.'

432. Results of Blasting in Big Cut

Large group of men standing in front of a building.  Shows E. Mower? standing with men.

433. Loggers at Camp

434. Logging Crew of Camp Two, Crooked Fork of Elk River

435. Loggers in an Old Convertible Model T, Possibly at Cass, W.Va.

Cass Mill and two of its smoke stacks.

436. Lumber Mill at Cass, W. Va.

Front view of Shay No. 11 train engine at the water tank with six crew members in front.

437. Shay No. 11 at Spruce Water Tank With Crew

438. Shay No. 4 Rear View

Pulp Mill in Spruce W.Va.  Train tracks visible.

439. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

440. Log Pond and Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

441. Riding a Speeder

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

442. Shays at Spruce Shop

443. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay and Crew

View of Shay No. 4 train engine pulling log carts.

444. Shay No. 4, Front 3/4, with Load of Logs

Shay No. 7 train engine with two men in the cabin.

445. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Train engine with man standing beside it.

446. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

447. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

Railroad tracks beside a building.

448. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Being Built at Cass, W. Va. Mill Site

'Bascom-McFall Last-Seen-Alive Dec. 19, 1918.  Found Here April 7, 1919, Cass, W.Va.' Bascom McFall was a lumberman who stopped in Cass, W. Va. on his way home from camp.  He was robbed and murdered by three men.  An account of his death can be found in the journal Goldenseal, 20:1; p24.

449. Sign in the Woods

Mill and buildings in the town of Spruce, W.Va.

450. Lumber Mill and Town of Spruce, W. Va.

Man leaning against a train engine.

451. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

Shay  No. 7 train engine.

452. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

453. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay in Shop, Cass, W. Va,

John Reda's grocery store with a man and five children standing in front of it.

454. John Reda's Store at Cass, W. Va.

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

455. Loader at Landing

456. Cass Shop Under Construction

Shay No. 1 train engine.  Cass Station.

457. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders) Side View with a Second Shay

Damage to the east-side of Cass after a flood.

458. East-Side of Cass, W. Va. Results of a Flood

Hotel at Cass showing several men on the porches and on the ground.  Front view.

459. Hotel (Baker House), Cass, W. Va.

Man working a steam shovel.

460. Marion Steam Shovel in Big Cut with Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Dump Cars.

Front view of the Shay No. 4 train engine.

461. Shay No. 4 Front

462. Boom Piers and Logs for Sutton Mill, Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Shay train engine pushing empty carts.

463. Shay No. 4 Pushing Empties up Switchback, Front View of Engine

464. Railroad Work Crew in Front of Boiler, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

Men with horses, timber piles in the background.

465. Unloading Horses at Cass, W. Va.

Extract plant with large smoke stack.

466. Deer Creek Extract Plant, Cass, W. Va.

The northern part of the town of Cass, W. Va. can be seen on the hill in the background.

467. Lumber Yards at Cass, W. Va.

Two men standing on a log being lifted up by a loader.

468. Loader and Crew - Loading Logs

Kyle Neighbors and Wendy standing beside a train engine.

469. Heisler No. 3 with Kyle Neighbors and Small Girl, Wendy, Cass Scenic Railroad

Two men shaking hands.  One man is wearing a conductor hat.

470. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Lima Shay #2563 built in 1912, originally G.C.& E. Railroad No. 7 of Cass, W.Va.  Shown after being sold to the Deep Run Coal Company, Shaw, W.V.  The town of Shaw and Deep Run to be flooded by the Bloomington Dam now being built by the Army Corp of Engineers on the Potomac River.

471. Shay Locomotive, Deep Run Railroad, Shaw, W. Va.

3/4 front view of Shay train engine with man standing on the front end.

472. Shay Locomotive

3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 1.  Two men sitting on the front of the engine.  One man standing beside the engine.  Two men in the cab of the engine.

473. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

Shay No. 4 train engine pushing/pulling a lumber loading cart.

474. Shay No. 4 with Loader in Woods, Mower Lumber Co.

3/4 front view of Shay No. 13 train engine at a water tank.

475. Shay No. 13 at Cass, W. Va. Water Tank

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

476. Shay Locomotive

Sign on the Stoney River Dam.  'KEEP OFF CONCRETE PART OF DAM AND IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED'.  W.Va. Pulp Paper Co.  Grant County, W.V.

477. Stoney River Dam Sign

Shay No. 8 train engine with two men standing beside it and two men in the cabin.

478. Shay No. 8 at Cass Yard, with Crew

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

479. Shay No. 4 and One Other Shay with Crowded Train on the Cass Scenic Railroad

In 1900 Samuel Slaymaker, a timber broker, set up a construction camp at the mouth of Leatherbark Creek (the present site of the Cass Scenic Railroad shops).

480. Slaymaker, Samuel E.

Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.

481. West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company No. 1 Loader

Close up of Spruce stump on Cup Run.

482. Spruce Stump on Cup Run

Three Shay train engines during the Richmond National Railway Historical Society trip.

483. Shay No. 4, 5, and 7 above Cass Station, Cass Scenic Railroad

Paul James and Ray McClelland pose in front of loaded log cars.

484. Paul James and Ray McClelland at Log Pond with Loaded Log Cars

Marion Steam Shovel and Shay in Big Cut rear view at distance.  'Shovel is near the end then track is thrown in low place and shovel is brought back to start where track is now.'

485. Big Cut One Mile from Spruce, W. Va. on the Elk River.

'Cheat Bridge W.Va. near Rt. 250. 1st house, Clyde Folks; 2nd house (high porch), C.P. Gillepsie.  Harlan's mother on porch, with motor car on tracks.'

486. Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.

Lima Shay c/n 3156 (192 tons) BH 1921 Class c 150, Rebuilt Cass shops Class 'D' 192 sitting on siding at Cass after final retirement in 1945? Scrapped Cass, W.Va. in 1951 or 55?  (Shay behind believed to be No. 13 c/n 1586 Class 'D' 150) BH 1906.  Gear Ratio 1 to 2.45.

487. Shay No. 12. Standing Ready to be Junked (Left Side View).

Shay No. 3 train engine on a wooden trestle.  Lima Shay, shop/order No. 754 W.Va. Spruce Lumber Company.  (Greenbrier and Elk River No. 3) T.K.A. 65 ton - 3 Tu?k

488. Shay No. 3 on Wooden Trestle with Load of Logs.

Loader placing logs on lumber cars.

489. Mower Lumber Company Loader & Engine at Landing.

Shay No. 12 of the Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Company (top) and Shay No. 3 of the Raine Lumber Company (bottom).

490. Shay No. 3 and 12, Builder's Photographs

Marion steam shovel and Shay No. 10 in Big Cut, one mile from Spruce on Elk River.  Shay No. 10 is giving the shovel water.  Robert Dean of Sayre, Pa. says on back of original pix that he hauled there from start to finish.

491. Shay No. 10 and Marion Steam Shovel in the Big Cut.

Piles of logs on the edge of the forest.

492. Logs Cut on Sugar Creek, Webster County by the Ranwood Lumber Company

493. Dock for Air Drying Cut Lumber at Ranwood Lumber Company, Webster County, W. Va.

The logger identified in this image, John Hinkle was born August 23, 1856 in Braxton County, W. Va. and later moved to Webster County where he married his wife Eliza Ann Anderson on August 19,1876.  They established their home on Holly River, which would later be known as Wheeler.  John Hinkle was reported to have been a businessman, farmer, jeweler, and photographer.  He also started a general store, A.J. Hinkle and Son, in Wheeler, and was Postmaster at Wheeler Post Office from 1905 until 1913 when his son, Perry, succeeded him.  John Hinkle died October 8, 1930 in Webster County, W. Va. and is buried at the Alexander Anderson Cemetery.(source: genealogy research of Sherry P. Gallagher-Jaffre)

494. Logger, John Hinkle, Posing with a Large Poplar Log Near the Holly River, Webster County, W. Va.

Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company, Nicholas County.

495. Loggers Operating a Log Crane

Three men standing atop piles of logs. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company.

496. Log Yard on Holly River

Group portrait of loggers standing on railroad tracks.

497. Section Crew at William, W. Va.

Large trees and forest bottom.(Pocahontas County?)

498. Virgin Spruce Forest Near Head of the North Fork of the Cherry River

Lumber mill in operation on edge of log pond.

499. Lumber Mill at Dobbin, W. Va.

Men stand on a Shay locomotive hauling a train of cars filled with logs.

500. Shay Logging Train and Crew