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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

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

401. Shay No. 7

402. Shay No. 1 at Cass Shop Yard

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

Shay train engine on tracks beside a hill.

404. Shay No. 4 at Coal Bin, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

Two Shay engines pulling passenger carts during Richmond NRHS trip, May 7, 1966 below Whittaker, W.Va.

406. Shay No. 7 and No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

407. Shay No. 7 and No. 4 Climbing up to Bald Knob, Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

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

Side view with a second Shay.  Painted Red- June 15, 1963.  Cass Station.

409. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders), Cass Scenic Railroad

Two Shay engines with crew standing beside them at water tank along tracks on mountain trip.

410. Shay No. 7 & No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

Derelict train engine.

411. Shay No. 12, Left Side View, Standing Ready to be Junked.

412. Shay No. 4 at Cass Water Tank, Cass Scenic Railroad

Front view of Baxter Auto Sales.  People and automobiles in front of the building.

413. Baxter Auto Sales, Cass, W. Va.

Six men in front of a log camp building, early 1900s or before.

414. Logging Crew at Log Camp

415. Logging Family Posing on their Front Porch

Mill, log pond, and four stacks.  W.Va. Spruce Lumber Co., Cass, W.Va. (Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad No. 5) Believed to been at time No. 1503 in operation.

416. Lumber Mill and Log Pond at Cass, W. Va.

Deer Creek sign to the right, houses sit on the left side of the tracks.

417. House and Deer Creek Town Sign on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Tracks.

Pictured with possibly his wife.

418. Shay locomotive and Engineer

419. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Springy Galford, Engineer, and Girl.

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

420. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Ralph Tallman, Engineer, and Girl.

Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

421. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

422. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

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

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

View of East Cass showing Shorty's Restaurant and buildings.

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

425. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

Lumber mill, train tracks, 6 smoke-stacks, and lumber piles.

426. Deteriorating Sawmill

One of 12 Shay Engines pulling log trains at Cass, W.Va. during 1920's.  Now Site of W.Va. Scenic Railway.

427. Shay with Load of Logs

Front view of a mill and stacks.  C&O train cars in front.

428. Sawmill

Lumber mill under contstruction.

429. Portion of Mill

430. Ditcher with Crew

3/4 front view of the Shay train engine No. 11.

431. Shay No. 11

'The hump you see is where it has been blasted.'

432. Results of Blasting in Big Cut

Large group of men standing in front of a building.  Shows E. Mower? standing with men.

433. Loggers at Camp

434. Logging Crew of Camp Two, Crooked Fork of Elk River

435. Loggers in an Old Convertible Model T, Possibly at Cass, W.Va.

Cass Mill and two of its smoke stacks.

436. Lumber Mill at Cass, W. Va.

Front view of Shay No. 11 train engine at the water tank with six crew members in front.

437. Shay No. 11 at Spruce Water Tank With Crew

438. Shay No. 4 Rear View

Pulp Mill in Spruce W.Va.  Train tracks visible.

439. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

440. Log Pond and Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

441. Riding a Speeder

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

442. Shays at Spruce Shop

443. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay and Crew

View of Shay No. 4 train engine pulling log carts.

444. Shay No. 4, Front 3/4, with Load of Logs

Shay No. 7 train engine with two men in the cabin.

445. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Train engine with man standing beside it.

446. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

447. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

Railroad tracks beside a building.

448. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Being Built at Cass, W. Va. Mill Site

'Bascom-McFall Last-Seen-Alive Dec. 19, 1918.  Found Here April 7, 1919, Cass, W.Va.' Bascom McFall was a lumberman who stopped in Cass, W. Va. on his way home from camp.  He was robbed and murdered by three men.  An account of his death can be found in the journal Goldenseal, 20:1; p24.

449. Sign in the Woods

Mill and buildings in the town of Spruce, W.Va.

450. Lumber Mill and Town of Spruce, W. Va.

Man leaning against a train engine.

451. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

Shay  No. 7 train engine.

452. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

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

John Reda's grocery store with a man and five children standing in front of it.

454. John Reda's Store at Cass, W. Va.

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

455. Loader at Landing

456. Cass Shop Under Construction

Shay No. 1 train engine.  Cass Station.

457. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders) Side View with a Second Shay

Damage to the east-side of Cass after a flood.

458. East-Side of Cass, W. Va. Results of a Flood

Hotel at Cass showing several men on the porches and on the ground.  Front view.

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

Man working a steam shovel.

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

Front view of the Shay No. 4 train engine.

461. Shay No. 4 Front

462. Boom Piers and Logs for Sutton Mill, Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Shay train engine pushing empty carts.

463. Shay No. 4 Pushing Empties up Switchback, Front View of Engine

464. Railroad Work Crew in Front of Boiler, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

Men with horses, timber piles in the background.

465. Unloading Horses at Cass, W. Va.

Extract plant with large smoke stack.

466. Deer Creek Extract Plant, Cass, W. Va.

The northern part of the town of Cass, W. Va. can be seen on the hill in the background.

467. Lumber Yards at Cass, W. Va.

Two men standing on a log being lifted up by a loader.

468. Loader and Crew - Loading Logs

Kyle Neighbors and Wendy standing beside a train engine.

469. Heisler No. 3 with Kyle Neighbors and Small Girl, Wendy, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

470. 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.

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

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

472. 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.

473. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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

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

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

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

476. 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.

477. Stoney River Dam Sign

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

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

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

479. 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).

480. Slaymaker, Samuel E.