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1. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Spruce town and mill.

2. Spruce, W. Va. Town and Lumber Mill

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

3. Shay Locomotive

'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.'

4. Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.

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

5. Shay No. 3 on Wooden Trestle with Load of Logs.

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

6. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

7. Shays at Spruce Shop

Shay train engine No. 8 with five men standing beside it.

8. Shay No. 8 and Crew

9. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

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

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

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

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

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

12. Shay No. 4 at Switch with Caboose, 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.

13. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

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

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

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

16. Deteriorating Sawmill

Train engine with man standing beside it.

17. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.

18. Shay Wreck

Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.

19. Shay Wreck

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

20. Riding a Speeder

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

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

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

22. Sawmill Crew at Mill

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

23. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

24. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

25. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

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

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

27. Shay No. 4 Side View.

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

28. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man leaning against a train engine.

29. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

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

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

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.

31. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

33. Shay No. 6

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

34. Mixed White and African American Section Crew

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

35. Loader at Landing

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

36. Shay Front View

Business section of Cass, W.Va.  Cass wagon fording river.  Swinging bridge on the side.

37. Cass, W. Va. (Looking East at Business Section)

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

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 8.  Five men standing beside the train engine.

39. Shay No. 8 and Crew.

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

40. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

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

41. Sawmill

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.

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

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

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

Shay No. 12 of the Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Company (top) and Shay No. 3 of the Raine Lumber Company (bottom).

44. Shay No. 3 and 12, Builder's Photographs

Lumber mill under contstruction.

45. Portion of Mill

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.

46. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of train engine.

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

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