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Mower Lumber Company.

1. Loggers at Dinner in Railroad Camp

Shay No. 1 train engine on tracks. Cass Yard coal dock.

2. Shay No. 1, Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

Mower Lumber Company log loader loading logs onto train; Cass, W.V.<br />

3. Log Loader on Cheat Mountain

L.O.6; Cheat Mountain; Cass, WV; D.D. Brown Collection

4. Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.

Starting up Shavers Fork (Shay in woods at end of tracks); Walter Good 'Bluejay' Tumblin on flatcar (maybe not Walter Good - maybe Barney Showalter); D.D. Brown Collection.

5. Mower Construction Train, Cass, W. Va.

Log train passing logging camp. Note Log Dump in Foreground, Mower Lumber Co.

6. Railroad Logging Camp,

Crane loading logs onto train.

7. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

8. Clearing Trees for Mower Lumber Co. Railway (Starting Grade Up Shavers Fork of Cheat River)

9. Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.

Train engine on tracks in forest.

10. Shay in Woods Near End of Track, Mower Lumber Co.

Men working with mill equipment.  L to R  1. Setter, William Simmons (sawed the last log at Cass July 1, 1960)  2. Oliver Tyson  3. unknown.

11. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.

Log train passing log pond.

12. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

13. Benjamin Jackson Measures Log at Cass Mill, Mower Lumber Co.

Men direct floating logs on the pond as a log train passes.

14. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

Train engine and crane working in log yard.

15. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

Three men sorting lumber.  L to R, 1. Alex Duncan 2. Sherwin Lambert 3. Cammern Ware.

16. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Company, Cass, W. Va.

Two men cutting wood.  L to R  1. Arthur White  2. Marvin Moss

17. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.

Floor Machine Operator, John Warner.

18. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.

Train engine on tracks with engineer looking back out of the window.

19. Shay No. 4 with Gondola Back View, Mower Lumber Co.

Side view of train engine.

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

In front, Mower Lumber Company skidder on yard siding.

21. Caboose No. 12 in Cass Shop Yard

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

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

Shay No. 4 train engine pushing/pulling a lumber loading cart.

23. Shay No. 4 with Loader in Woods, Mower Lumber Co.

Loader placing logs on lumber cars.

24. Mower Lumber Company Loader &amp; Engine at Landing.

Mower Lumber Company train engine.  In doorway:  Granville Barkley.  In Window:  Guy Stanley.

25. Shay No. 12 (R.O. 6) in front of Pulp Shed, Cass, W. Va.

Unidentified man stands on a pier in the sawmill "pond".

26. Logs and Log Cars at Mower Lumber Company, Cass, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

27. Pond of Mower Lumber Company, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

'Heisler No.6 built as Bostonia Coal and Clay Product Co., New Bethlehem, Pa. No.20. Sold to Meadow River Lumber co., their No.6. Shay No.4 built as Strouds Creek and Muddlety No.5. Sold in 1943 to Mower Lumber Co., their No.4. Type: 3 Truck Heisler, 3 Truck Shay.  Builder:  Heisler, Lima Locomotive. Year:  10/29, 12/22.  Builders No. 1591, 3189.'

28. Shay No. 6-4, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W.Va.

Type: 3-Truck Shay; Builder: Lima Locomotive Works; Year: Dec. 1922; Builder's No. 3189.  Built as Strouds Creek and Muddlety No.5. Sold in 1943 to Mower Lumber co., their No. 4.

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

Type: 3 Truck Shay; Builder: Lima Locomotive Works; Year: Dec. 1922; Builder's No. 3189.  Built as Strouds Creek and Muddlety No.5. In 1943 became Mower Lumber Co. No.4.

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

31. F. Edwin Mower and Ben Alley in Front of the Mower Lumber Company's Plane, Charleston, W. Va.

32. Splinter Aircraft of the Mower Lumber Company with F. Edwin Mower and His Pilot

Pond jockey would walk out on ramp as seen in middle of pond and push logs, using a long pike, towards the sawmill.

33. Log Pond at Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

34. Logging Truck Pulling Crane Gathers Logs for Transportation Back to Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

35. Crane Gathers Logs for Transportation to Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

36. Stacks of Planed and Processed Timber on Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

37. Stacks of Planed Timber and Part of Factory in Distance on Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

38. Truck Carrying Timber From Logging Site to Mower Lumber Co. Plant, Omar, W. Va.

39. Mower Lumber Co. Employee Pushing Planed Log Through Machinery, Omar, W. Va.

40. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

41. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

42. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

43. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

44. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

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45. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.

46. West Virginia University Forestry Students Visit Mower Lumber Co., Cass, W. Va.