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Train engine on tracks heading towards a cart.  Man standing on tracks.

301. Shay No. 4 Below Water Tank at Cass, W.Va.

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

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

Back, side view of train engine.

303. Shay No. 4 Rear 3/4

Cleared out space in the forest at Spruce, W.Va.  Photo made from a Kodachrome slide.

304. Location of the Town of Spruce, W. Va.

Train engine on tracks from the front.

305. Shay No. 4 Front

Side view of train engine with nine crew members standing in front of it.

306. Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew

307. Shay No. 2 on Iron Trestle with Box Cars

Side view of train engine and three crew members.

308. Shay No. 4 Side

Train engine with three crew members standing in front of it.

309. Shay No. 12

Paul James leaning on Cheat Mountian elevation sign.

310. Paul James Standing Where Road Crosses Cheat Mountain, Elevation 3,948 Feet

Logs float on pond.

311. Unloading Logs at the Mill Pond, Cass, W. Va.

312. Lumber Mill Fire

Crew members pose in front of ditcher.

313. Ditcher with Crew

Newly completed, no water accumulated.  J.H. Collins, C.B. Cromer.

314. Stoney River Dam, Looking Downstream

Cheat River bordered by trees.

315. Cheat River, Looking West

316. Sawmill and Lumber Yard in Full Operation

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

317. Shay No. 5 with Loaded Passenger Cars.

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

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

Mill machinery

319. Hamilton Steam Engine

Train engine on tracks.  Lots of smoke coming from stack.

320. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1) at Switch (3/4 Front)

Side view of train engine beside forest.

321. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1)

Train engine with log carts and four of its crew members standing in front of it.  (Left Side 3/4 Front) Charles Cramer and Alt Cramer.

322. Shay No. 3 with Crew and Load of Logs.

Tracks run along cut in hillside.  Train engine back in the distance.

323. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

View of a Shay Engine traveling on tracks.

324. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4

Side view of Shay train engine.

325. Shay No. 7 Cass Scenic Railroad

Train engine in the snow.

326. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4 in Snow

Shay No. 7 train engine from the side.

327. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

328. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of Shay #8 train engine.  Two crew members in the front, two crew members in the train engine.

329. Shay No. 8 at Water Tanks, With Crew Front-Side

Photo of Spruce Mill site taken from logging grade.  Believed same spot that old Spruce pictures taken in early 1900's.

330. Ruin of Lumber Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

W.Va. Pulp and Paper Company.  Keeper's house on far shore.  Grant County, W.Va.

331. Stoney River Dam

Front left side 3/4.  On back of original photo it says, "I was the first engineer, got her new from Lima, Ohio.  Robert Dean? or A.E. Perkins?"

332. Shay No. 10 at Water Tank

West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company train engine.  S.I.C.E [?]  1912 Atlanta (Perrell).  Credit copy, Mallory Hope Ferrell.

333. Climax No. 1

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

334. 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.

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

Group of male workers.

336. Logging Crew

Original photo from Paul James.

337. Paul James and Ray McClelland in Cab of Shay No. 19.

Unfinished engine shop.

338. Cass Shop Under Construction

Shay No. 4 at depot, Cass.

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

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

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

Mill with old stumps in foreground.

341. Lumber Mill at Spruce, W. Va.

Three men standing on top of a stack.  Cass, WV.

342. Crew Posing on top of Stack No. 1 at Cass Lumber Mill (during construction)

Shay train engine in front of a water tank.

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

Side view of a train engine.  Picture taken from 2nd level of boiler room of the mill.

344. Shay No. 4 Side View.

Side view of train engine.

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

Front view of a Shay train engine with forest in the background.

346. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Side view of Shay train engine.

347. Shay No. 11 Side View

Front view of Shay train engine.  Man standing beside of it.

348. Shay Front View

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.

349. 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.

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

351. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

352. Blackhurst, Warren 'Tweard' - Looking out Window

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

353. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

354. Long Incline Up Hill

355. Class Photo Unidentified School

"Baker House $1.00 per day" on sign.  Cass, W.V.

356. Hotel (Baker House), Cass, W. Va.

Side view of Shay train engine beside a trestle.  Original from C.B. Cromer

357. Shay Left Hand Full View in front of Coal Trestle.

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.

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

Men standing on big steam shovel beside dump cars.

359. Marion Steam Shovel in Big Cut with Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Dump Cars.

Machinery and ladder visible in a mill.

360. Lumber Mill Equipment

Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.

361. Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.

Loader putting lumber on cargo cars.  Man standing on logs on the car.

362. Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151

There were 2 engines used in making the cut, No. 4 Engineer Robert Dean, No. 2 Engineer was Lewis (Pinhead) Collins.  There were 10-30 yd. cars and 10-20 yd. cars.  This is Engine #4 backing down with 10-30 yd. cars.

363. Shay No. 4 Rear View with 3 Loads of Dirt on 10-30 yd Cars. (Not the Big Cut)

364. East-side of Cass, W. Va. 'Negroe shanties,' in flood, looking across to main part of town.

View looking upstream of the Stoney River Dam.  Newly completed 1915.

365. Stoney River Dam

In front, Mower Lumber Company skidder on yard siding.

366. Caboose No. 12 in Cass Shop Yard

367. Cass Yard - Log Cars, Coal Cars and Old Model T with Steel Wheels on Track.

Group of women on porch, possibly a hotel or boarding house.

368. Lumber Town Women Posing on the Porch of their Boardinghouse

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

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

Men stand atop logs in car on tracks. Appears to be Narrow Guage.

370. Loggers loading a Log Car

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

371. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

372. Paul James and Ray McClelland at Log Pond with Loaded Log Cars

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

373. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

View Looking West Showing Company Store, Ice House, Lumber Yard, and Houses.

374. Cass, W. Va.

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

375. Sawmill Crew at Mill

376. Hotel and Other Houses at Cass, W. Va.

Large group of men posed on the Skidway.

377. Skidway, Cheat Mountain

Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad No. 2 for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. at Cass, W. Va; Shay No. 2 on Cheat Mtn. 1908.  Bob Hivick, Engineer.

378. On Cheat Mountain

View of Bald Knob Mountain.

379. Bald Knob, 4,800 Ft. Elevation

View looking down on Shay train engine.  Man standing on engine.

380. Shay No. 12 Looking Down from Coal Ramp at Sand House

Portrait of Ivan Clarkson standing next to train engine. Sunday afternoon; Ivan Clarkson Collection.

381. Shay No. 13 in Cass Yard

Front view of Shay #1 train engine and 3 men in front of it.  One man in cab.

382. Shay No. 1 at Mill

383. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

384. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

385. Shay No. 6

Out of Service Since 1961.  Built 1922-23.  Mill from pond side, in state of disrepair.

386. Derelict Lumber Mill at Cass, W. Va.

Aerial view of East Cass showing 'Shorty's Restaurant' and buildings along side the river.

387. East-Side of Cass, W. Va.

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

388. Mixed White and African American Section Crew

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

389. Shay No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Tracks with Crews

Log loader with crew. "This is the way they load logs on the Elk River.  S.G."

390. Log Loader on Elk River

Lumber pile beside a log car.

391. Loading Logs at Landing

392. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp near Cass, W. Va.

Five men leaning on a cement bridge looking west.  Town in the background.

393. Group of Men on Cement Bridge at Cass, W. Va.

Man rides speeder on railroad tracks.

394. Riding a Speeder

Mill engine with two workers:  Scott Lockard and Roy Cook.

395. Mill Engine, Spruce, W. Va.

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

396. 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.

397. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

Five men standing in front of a train engine.

398. Locomotive No. 1008. Western Maryland Rod Engine and Crew

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

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

Three train engines and crew. 1910 postcards Joe Crowl, Geo. Cramer, Bob Dean, Cal Bridly? (Bladley), Freddie Linan.

400. Shay No. 1, 2, & 3 at Spruce Shop