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

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

134. 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.

135. Stoney River Dam Sign

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

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

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

137. 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).

138. Slaymaker, Samuel E.

Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.

139. West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company No. 1 Loader

Close up of Spruce stump on Cup Run.

140. Spruce Stump on Cup Run

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

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

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

142. 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.'

143. 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.'

144. Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.