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Two men shaking hands.  One man is wearing a conductor hat.

469. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Lima Shay #2563 built in 1912, originally G.C.& E. Railroad No. 7 of Cass, W.Va.  Shown after being sold to the Deep Run Coal Company, Shaw, W.V.  The town of Shaw and Deep Run to be flooded by the Bloomington Dam now being built by the Army Corp of Engineers on the Potomac River.

470. Shay Locomotive, Deep Run Railroad, Shaw, W. Va.

3/4 front view of Shay train engine with man standing on the front end.

471. Shay Locomotive

3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 1.  Two men sitting on the front of the engine.  One man standing beside the engine.  Two men in the cab of the engine.

472. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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

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

3/4 front view of Shay No. 13 train engine at a water tank.

474. Shay No. 13 at Cass, W. Va. Water Tank

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

475. Shay Locomotive

Sign on the Stoney River Dam.  'KEEP OFF CONCRETE PART OF DAM AND IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED'.  W.Va. Pulp Paper Co.  Grant County, W.V.

476. Stoney River Dam Sign

Shay No. 8 train engine with two men standing beside it and two men in the cabin.

477. Shay No. 8 at Cass Yard, with Crew

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

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

In 1900 Samuel Slaymaker, a timber broker, set up a construction camp at the mouth of Leatherbark Creek (the present site of the Cass Scenic Railroad shops).

479. Slaymaker, Samuel E.

Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.

480. West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company No. 1 Loader