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Bald Knob Trains: 2nd Car Brakeman, Robert Long; Conductor,  Gearold Cassoll;<br />Standing on rear platform: Ken Caplinger; Cab of No. 7, Artie Barkley; On ground, right foreground,  "Doc" Carlson; photograph from John P. Killorah, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Chas, WV 25305.

1. First Regular Revenue Train to Bald Knob

Locomotive engine on tracks. Cass Scenic R.R. Cass, W.V.

2. Shay No. 4

Locomotive engine with conductors. Cass Scenic R.R. Cass, WV; Artie Bailey in the door; "Doc" Carlson at the throttle.

3. Shay No. 5

Portrait of man in hardhat pounding the last spike in the Bald Knob extension of Cass Scenic R.R.; photograph from John P. Killoran, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Charleston, WV 25305.

4. Pounding the Last Spike In the Bald Knob Extension Cass Scenic Railroad

Locomotive and passenger cars; Walter Good, conductor, on left side with hand on walkway chain; P.F. "Bus" Long, C&amp;O station agent, to Walter's right, also with hand on chain; photograph from Richard Carter, N. White Hall Rd., Norristown P.O. 3 P.A.

5. Gum Field Curve on First Switchback, Summer 1966

Kermit McKeever, WV Parks Director, Whitaker,Cass, WV; photograph from John P. Killoran, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Charleston, WV 25305.

6. W. Va. Parks Director Kermit McKeever at the Podium

Shay No. 4 crossing a railroad bridge. Cass Scenic R.R. Cass, WV; Richard Carter, N. Whitehall Rd, Norristown, R.D. 3, P.A.

7. Shay No. 4

Shay Locomotives No. 1 and 4 pushing people in a cart up a hill. Cass, W.V.

8. Shay No. 1 and 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay No. 4 Engine on tracks; R. Sparks.

9. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W. Va.

Shay No. 7 train engine on the tracks of a hillside; Richard Carter, N. WHitehall Rd., Norristown, R.D. 3 P.A.

10. Shay No. 7, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W. Va.

Fireman boarding train. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, WV; Richard Carter, N. Whitehall Road, Norristown, R.D. 3, P.A.

11. Shay No. 7. Artie Barkley, Fireman, Boarding Locomotive

Train engine on tracks with two men looking out of the engine room. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, W.V.

12. Heisler No. 6

Train engine on tracks in the forest; Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, WV; Bagdon.

13. Shay No. 4

Shay. No 3 on tracks; Cass Scenice R.R., Cass, W.V.

14. Shay No. 3

Shay trains on tracks. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, WV; John P. Killoran, Promotion Office, WV State Parks, Charleston, WV 25305.

15. Shay No. 7 and One Other Shay

Shay No. 4 pushing passenger cart up a hill. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, W.V.

16. Shay No. 4

Shay No. 5 being loaded by a tractor. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, WV; John P. Killoran, Promotion Officer,WV State Parks,<br />Chas, WV 25305

17. Shay No. 5

Portrait of dignitaries sitting in chairs on a hillside. Cass, WV; John P. Killoran, Promotion Officer, WV State Parks, Chas, WV 25305

18. Dignitaries at Whittaker

Shay  No. 7 and 4 at Whittaker Station. Cass Scenic R.R.; Cass, W.V.

19. Shay No. 7 and 4

Train moving along tracks.

20. Heisler No. 6, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W. Va.

Engine hauling cars on the Cass Scenic Railroad.

21. Heisler No. 6, Cass, W. Va.

Group portrait of men standing in front of a train.

22. Shop Crew, Cass Scenic Railroad

Cass - Greenbrier Excursion. Cass, W.Va.

23. Rod Engine on Passenger Run at Depot

Train engine in a work shop.  Cass Scenic  Railroad

24. Pacific Coast Shay in Shop at Cass

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Two trains connected on a railroad track.

25. Shay No. 3 and One Other

Train engine on tracks beside a hill.

26. Shay No. 4 (Front 3/4 View)

Front view of a train engine.

27. Shay No. 4 Front

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Train engine with loaded passenger cars on tracks beside hill and forest.

28. Shay No. 5 with Loaded Passenger Cars.

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Locomotive train engine with caboose on train tracks.

29. Heisler No. 6 and Caboose No. 90788D.

Side view of Shay train engine.

30. Shay No. 7 Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay No. 7 train engine from the side.

31. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

32. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Two train engines: Heisler and Shay No. 7 from Cass Scenic Railroad, at Gum Curve.

33. Heisler No. 6 and Shay No. 7 Cass Scenic Railroad

From Western Maryland R.R. at Spruce, W.Va. on Big Cut side of loop at Spruce.  Western Maryland Railway wires across bottom of photo.

34. Bald Knob Scene withTrain in the Distance at Spruce, W. Va. Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay No. 4 at depot, Cass.

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

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

36. 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.

37. 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.

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

39. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

40. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

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.

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

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

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

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

43. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

44. 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.

45. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

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

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

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

47. Shay No. 7

48. Shay No. 1 at Cass Shop Yard