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Walter Good applies wrench to the grease cups lubricating the side rods of his engine before going up on the Mt. while fireman, Paul Bradley looks on. Both were veterans of log hauling days before passengers where hauled on Cass Scenic Railroad.

13. Engineer Walter Good and Fireman Paul Bradley Adjust Grease Cups

IDNO:
000350
Title:
Engineer Walter Good and Fireman Paul Bradley Adjust Grease Cups
Date:
undated
Description:
Walter Good applies wrench to the grease cups lubricating the side rods of his engine before going up on the Mt. while fireman, Paul Bradley looks on. Both were veterans of log hauling days before passengers where hauled on Cass Scenic Railroad.

14. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

IDNO:
000351
Title:
Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated

15. Blackhurst, Warren 'Tweard' - Looking out Window

IDNO:
000352
Title:
Blackhurst, Warren 'Tweard' - Looking out Window
Date:
undated
Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

16. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

IDNO:
000353
Title:
Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.
Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

17. Long Incline Up Hill

IDNO:
000354
Title:
Long Incline Up Hill
Date:
undated
Description:
Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

18. Class Photo Unidentified School

IDNO:
000355
Title:
Class Photo Unidentified School
Date:
ca. 1910
"Baker House $1.00 per day" on sign. Cass, W.V.

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

IDNO:
000356
Title:
Hotel (Baker House), Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1912
Description:
"Baker House $1.00 per day" on sign. Cass, W.V.
Side view of Shay train engine beside a trestle. Original from C.B. Cromer

20. Shay Left Hand Full View in front of Coal Trestle.

IDNO:
000357
Title:
Shay Left Hand Full View in front of Coal Trestle.
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of Shay train engine beside a trestle. Original from C.B. Cromer
Earl Palmer, "Blue Ridge Mt's Roamin' Cameraman," Cambria, Va. 'This decaying building was once the worlds largest double bandmills'. During the hey-day of operations at Cass, 2500 men worked here and in the woods round about, turning out a quarter million feet of wood products per day, working two 10 hour shifts. Nowadays the old bldg. is an object of curiousity amongst thousands of rail fans who pass by on logging train excursions to Bald Knob.

21. Band Mill in State of Disrepair at Cass, W. Va.

IDNO:
000358
Title:
Band Mill in State of Disrepair at Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Earl Palmer, "Blue Ridge Mt's Roamin' Cameraman," Cambria, Va. 'This decaying building was once the worlds largest double bandmills'. During the hey-day of operations at Cass, 2500 men worked here and in the woods round about, turning out a quarter million feet of wood products per day, working two 10 hour shifts. Nowadays the old bldg. is an object of curiousity amongst thousands of rail fans who pass by on logging train excursions to Bald Knob.
Machinery and ladder visible in a mill.

22. Lumber Mill Equipment

IDNO:
000360
Title:
Lumber Mill Equipment
Description:
Machinery and ladder visible in a mill.
Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.

23. Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.

IDNO:
000361
Title:
Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.
Date:
undated
Description:
Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.
Loader putting lumber on cargo cars. Man standing on logs on the car.

24. Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151

IDNO:
000362
Title:
Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Loader putting lumber on cargo cars. Man standing on logs on the car.