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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

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

51. Shay No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Tracks with Crews

Log loader with crew. "This is the way they load logs on the Elk River.  S.G."

52. Log Loader on Elk River

Lumber pile beside a log car.

53. Loading Logs at Landing

54. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp near Cass, W. Va.

Five men leaning on a cement bridge looking west.  Town in the background.

55. Group of Men on Cement Bridge at Cass, W. Va.

Mill engine with two workers:  Scott Lockard and Roy Cook.

56. Mill Engine, Spruce, W. Va.

Shay train engine on tracks.  Large smoke cloud coming from smoke stack.

57. Shay No. 1 and Another Engine at Turn above Switchback. Cass Scenic Railroad

Close-up shot of a Shay train engine. Three cylinders fronting the cab of this 1880 Model Shay engine dispatches power to all twelve wheels equally.  When one wheel spins, they all spin, which is a rarity indeed.

58. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

Five men standing in front of a train engine.

59. Locomotive No. 1008. Western Maryland Rod Engine and Crew

Lima Shay No. 1907. Ex. GC and E No. 6 at Monitor No. 4 mine, Austen, WV March or April year 1969.

60. Shay Locomotive in Destroyed Engine House , 1967-68 Winter

Three train engines and crew. 1910 postcards Joe Crowl, Geo. Cramer, Bob Dean, Cal Bridly? (Bladley), Freddie Linan.

61. Shay No. 1, 2, & 3 at Spruce Shop

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

62. Shay No. 7

63. Shay No. 1 at Cass Shop Yard

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

Shay train engine on tracks beside a hill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

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

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

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

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

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

Derelict train engine.

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

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

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

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

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

75. Logging Crew at Log Camp

76. 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.

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

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

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

Pictured with possibly his wife.

79. Shay locomotive and Engineer

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

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

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

Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

82. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

83. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

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

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

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

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

86. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

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

87. Deteriorating Sawmill

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

88. Shay with Load of Logs

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

89. Sawmill

Lumber mill under contstruction.

90. Portion of Mill

91. Ditcher with Crew

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

92. Shay No. 11

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

93. Results of Blasting in Big Cut

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

94. Loggers at Camp

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

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