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Shay No. 7 train engine from the side.

13. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of Shay No. 7 train engine. Tracks in foreground.

14. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

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.

16. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

17. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

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

18. 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.

19. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

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

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

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

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

23. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay in Shop, Cass, W. Va,

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

24. Shay No. 4 and One Other Shay with Crowded Train on the Cass Scenic Railroad