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1. Cass Shop Under Construction

Shay No. 4 at depot, Cass.

2. Shay No. 4 Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat and Bald Mountain Scenic Railroad

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Two train engines at station.  Original from Earl Palmer.

3. Shay No. 5 and No. 7 at Cass Station.

Mill with old stumps in foreground.

4. Lumber Mill at Spruce, W. Va.

Three men standing on top of a stack.  Cass, WV.

5. Crew Posing on top of Stack No. 1 at Cass Lumber Mill (during construction)

Shay train engine in front of a water tank.

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

Side view of a train engine.  Picture taken from 2nd level of boiler room of the mill.

7. Shay No. 4 Side View.

Side view of train engine.

8. Shay No. 12 Rear View Showing Added Trucks and Water Tank

Front view of a Shay train engine with forest in the background.

9. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Side view of Shay train engine.

10. Shay No. 11 Side View

Front view of Shay train engine.  Man standing beside of it.

11. Shay Front View

No. 4 takes on a tank of water, and it takes 1,500 gallons of it from nearby Leatherback Creek for each puffing trip up Cheat Mountain, with about 400 thrilled passengers, that is.  The neighboring Chesapeake and Ohio Railway donated the water tank.

12. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

14. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

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

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

16. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

17. Long Incline Up Hill

18. Class Photo Unidentified School

"Baker House $1.00 per day" on sign.  Cass, W.V.

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

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.

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.

Machinery and ladder visible in a mill.

22. Lumber Mill Equipment

Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.

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

Loader putting lumber on cargo cars.  Man standing on logs on the car.

24. Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151

There were 2 engines used in making the cut, No. 4 Engineer Robert Dean, No. 2 Engineer was Lewis (Pinhead) Collins.  There were 10-30 yd. cars and 10-20 yd. cars.  This is Engine #4 backing down with 10-30 yd. cars.

25. Shay No. 4 Rear View with 3 Loads of Dirt on 10-30 yd Cars. (Not the Big Cut)

26. East-side of Cass, W. Va. 'Negroe shanties,' in flood, looking across to main part of town.

View looking upstream of the Stoney River Dam.  Newly completed 1915.

27. Stoney River Dam

In front, Mower Lumber Company skidder on yard siding.

28. Caboose No. 12 in Cass Shop Yard

29. Cass Yard - Log Cars, Coal Cars and Old Model T with Steel Wheels on Track.

Group of women on porch, possibly a hotel or boarding house.

30. Lumber Town Women Posing on the Porch of their Boardinghouse

Side View of Shay train engine pushing a cart with two men on it.

31. Shay No. 4 at Whittaker, W. Va., Cass Scenic Railroad

Men stand atop logs in car on tracks. Appears to be Narrow Guage.

32. Loggers loading a Log Car

Side view of Shay train engine.  Four men standing beside it.  Clyde Galford, Engineer.

33. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

35. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

View Looking West Showing Company Store, Ice House, Lumber Yard, and Houses.

36. Cass, W. Va.

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

37. Sawmill Crew at Mill

38. Hotel and Other Houses at Cass, W. Va.

Large group of men posed on the Skidway.

39. Skidway, Cheat Mountain

Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad No. 2 for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. at Cass, W. Va; Shay No. 2 on Cheat Mtn. 1908.  Bob Hivick, Engineer.

40. On Cheat Mountain

View of Bald Knob Mountain.

41. Bald Knob, 4,800 Ft. Elevation

View looking down on Shay train engine.  Man standing on engine.

42. Shay No. 12 Looking Down from Coal Ramp at Sand House

Portrait of Ivan Clarkson standing next to train engine. Sunday afternoon; Ivan Clarkson Collection.

43. Shay No. 13 in Cass Yard

Front view of Shay #1 train engine and 3 men in front of it.  One man in cab.

44. Shay No. 1 at Mill

45. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

46. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

47. Shay No. 6

Out of Service Since 1961.  Built 1922-23.  Mill from pond side, in state of disrepair.

48. Derelict Lumber Mill at Cass, W. Va.

Aerial view of East Cass showing 'Shorty's Restaurant' and buildings along side the river.

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

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

50. Mixed White and African American Section Crew