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Loader placing logs on lumber cars.

361. 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).

362. 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.

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

Piles of logs on the edge of the forest.

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

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

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

366. Log Yard on Holly River

Large trees and forest bottom.(Pocahontas County?)

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

Lumber mill in operation on edge of log pond.

368. Lumber Mill at Dobbin, W. Va.

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

369. Shay Logging Train and Crew

Standing right to left in the woods:  1. Geo Cromet  2. Ralph Riddle  3. Pat Lannan  4. Fred Lannan  5. --  Sitting right to left:  6. Charley Sealey  7. Larnce? Bradley  8. Andy Berriel  9.  Jess Tuesey?

370. Loggers Dressed Up inTheir Best

North Fork Lumber Co. No. 3? could be Cheat and Elk.

371. Shay No. 3 in Woods with Loader and Crew

Unlike standard steam engines every wheel of the Shay engine and tender is a drive wheel no wheel can spin unless they all spin, thus giving the Shay tremendous power.  Vertical cylinders and the crankshaft make multiple power strokes per revolution of the gear driven wheels for a smooth, even flow of power to negotiate steep grades with heavy loads effortlessly.

372. Shay Engine (Close Up of Gears)