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Spruce town and mill.
Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.
Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.
Distant photo of a Shay engine and steam shovel in between the cut in mountain.
Train engine with a man standing beside it.
Two men standing at doorway in front of large building.
Shay No. 1, 'Old Barney' (the original #1) at the Spruce Shop.
3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 6.
Shay train engine No. 8 with five men standing beside it.
Boiler Room, chipper shed, pan room and extract plant.  Looking east towards structures facing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Business section of Cass, W.Va.  Cass wagon fording river.  Swinging bridge on the side.
3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 8.  Five men standing beside the train engine.
West Virginia Spruce Lumber Co. American Log Loader, Model C, No. 2.  On loader says 'Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad 39' on car.  Says 'Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad' on engine.  Log loader, engineer, John Geraw; Engine 2, engineer Lewis Collins; Fireman, Robert Dean.
'Controls inside the cab of a Shay look like this.  Shown are train and engine brake controls, reverse bar, water injector, and throttle and water-gauge cocks.  Visitors are welcome to visit the cab between 'runs' and they do!'
Lima Pacific Coast Shay c/n 3320 BH 1928 in Cass Shops 8/2/1971 cylinders 13 x 16 -36 wheels.  Shay in Cass Shop left hand front 3/4.  Arrived Cass 1971.  Sold:  Mayo Lbr. Co. No. 4. Paldi B.C. 702601928; Lake Logging Co. No. 5 Cowichan Lake B.C. 2-43; Western Forest Industries No. 5, Honeymoon Bay B.C. 12/46; Railway Appliance Research Ltd. No. 144, North Vancouver B.C. 1-64
Hesiler No. 6 train engine on tracks.
The 'Cass Symphony' plays spritely folk and logging camp tunes to the delight of a Sunday afternoon audience on the railroad station platform of the Cass Scenic Railroad.  This informal group is composed of ex-loggers.
"W.Va. Spruce Lumber Company.  American Log Loader,  Model C, No. 2" on loader.  "Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad 39" on car. "Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad" on engine.  Log loader, engineer, John Geraw.  Engine 2, engineer, Lewis Collins.  Fireman, Robert Dean.
Unlike standard steam engines every wheel of the Shay engine and tender is a drive wheel no wheel can spin unless they all spin, thus giving the Shay tremendous power.  Vertical cylinders and the crankshaft make multiple power strokes per revolution of the gear driven wheels for a smooth, even flow of power to negotiate steep grades with heavy loads effortlessly.
North Fork Lumber Co. No. 3? could be Cheat and Elk.
Standing right to left in the woods:  1. Geo Cromet  2. Ralph Riddle  3. Pat Lannan  4. Fred Lannan  5. --  Sitting right to left:  6. Charley Sealey  7. Larnce? Bradley  8. Andy Berriel  9.  Jess Tuesey?
Marion steam shovel and Shay No. 10 in Big Cut, one mile from Spruce on Elk River.  Shay No. 10 is giving the shovel water.  Robert Dean of Sayre, Pa. says on back of original pix that he hauled there from start to finish.
Shay No. 12 of the Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Company (top) and Shay No. 3 of the Raine Lumber Company (bottom).
Loader placing logs on lumber cars.
Shay No. 3 train engine on a wooden trestle.  Lima Shay, shop/order No. 754 W.Va. Spruce Lumber Company.  (Greenbrier and Elk River No. 3) T.K.A. 65 ton - 3 Tu?k
'Cheat Bridge W.Va. near Rt. 250. 1st house, Clyde Folks; 2nd house (high porch), C.P. Gillepsie.  Harlan's mother on porch, with motor car on tracks.'
Marion Steam Shovel and Shay in Big Cut rear view at distance.  'Shovel is near the end then track is thrown in low place and shovel is brought back to start where track is now.'
Paul James and Ray McClelland pose in front of loaded log cars.
Three Shay train engines during the Richmond National Railway Historical Society trip.
Close up of Spruce stump on Cup Run.
Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.
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).
Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.
Shay No. 8 train engine with two men standing beside it and two men in the cabin.
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.
3/4 front view of Shay train engine.
3/4 front view of Shay No. 13 train engine at a water tank.
Shay No. 4 train engine pushing/pulling a lumber loading cart.
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.
3/4 front view of Shay train engine with man standing on the front end.
Two men shaking hands.  One man is wearing a conductor hat.
Kyle Neighbors and Wendy standing beside a train engine.
The northern part of the town of Cass, W. Va. can be seen on the hill in the background.
Extract plant with large smoke stack.
Men with horses, timber piles in the background.
Shay train engine pushing empty carts.
Front view of the Shay No. 4 train engine.
Man working a steam shovel.
Hotel at Cass showing several men on the porches and on the ground.  Front view.
Damage to the east-side of Cass after a flood.
Shay No. 1 train engine.  Cass Station.
Cars full of logs at the loader landing.
John Reda's grocery store with a man and five children standing in front of it.
Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.
Shay  No. 7 train engine.
Man leaning against a train engine.
Mill and buildings in the town of Spruce, W.Va.
'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.
Railroad tracks beside a building.
Train engine with man standing beside it.
Shay No. 7 train engine with two men in the cabin.
View of Shay No. 4 train engine pulling log carts.
Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.
Man riding a speeder on a train track.
Pulp Mill in Spruce W.Va.  Train tracks visible.
Front view of Shay No. 11 train engine at the water tank with six crew members in front.
Cass Mill and two of its smoke stacks.
Large group of men standing in front of a building.  Shows E. Mower? standing with men.
'The hump you see is where it has been blasted.'
3/4 front view of the Shay train engine No. 11.
Lumber mill under contstruction.
Front view of a mill and stacks.  C&O train cars in front.
One of 12 Shay Engines pulling log trains at Cass, W.Va. during 1920's.  Now Site of W.Va. Scenic Railway.
Lumber mill, train tracks, 6 smoke-stacks, and lumber piles.
View of East Cass showing Shorty's Restaurant and buildings.
C.S.R. Engine at the switch.  Man bending over beside it.
Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).
Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.
Pictured with possibly his wife.
Deer Creek sign to the right, houses sit on the left side of the tracks.
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.
Six men in front of a log camp building, early 1900s or before.