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

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.

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

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.

3. On Cheat Mountain

Shay No. 1, 'Old Barney' (the original #1) at the Spruce Shop.

4. Shay No. 1 'Old Barney'

Large group of men posed on the Skidway.

5. Skidway, Cheat Mountain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Stoney River Dam

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

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

Boiler Room, chipper shed, pan room and extract plant.  Looking east towards structures facing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.

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

Extract plant with large smoke stack.

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

Paul James and Ray McClelland pose in front of loaded log cars.

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

Cass Mill and two of its smoke stacks.

16. Lumber Mill at Cass, W. Va.

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

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

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

19. Lumber Yards at Cass, W. Va.

View of Bald Knob Mountain.

20. Bald Knob, 4,800 Ft. Elevation

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

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

Loader placing logs on lumber cars.

22. Mower Lumber Company Loader & Engine at Landing.

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

23. Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151

Shay  No. 7 train engine.

24. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

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

25. Loggers at Camp

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

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

Front view of the Shay No. 4 train engine.

27. Shay No. 4 Front

In front, Mower Lumber Company skidder on yard siding.

28. Caboose No. 12 in Cass Shop Yard

29. Shay No. 4 Rear View

Shay train engine pushing empty carts.

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

Shay No. 4 at depot, Cass.

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

Shay No. 1 train engine.  Cass Station.

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

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

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

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

34. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

Three Shay train engines during the Richmond National Railway Historical Society trip.

36. Shay No. 4, 5, and 7 above Cass Station, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

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

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

Hesiler No. 6 train engine on tracks.

40. Heisler No. 6 at Cass Depot, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

42. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay and Crew

Shay train engine on tracks beside a hill.

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

44. Shay No. 1 at Cass Shop Yard

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

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

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

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

Kyle Neighbors and Wendy standing beside a train engine.

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

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

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

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

49. Shay No. 7

Close up of Spruce stump on Cup Run.

50. Spruce Stump on Cup Run

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.

51. Stoney River Dam Sign

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

52. Logging Crew at Log Camp

53. Logging Family Posing on their Front Porch

54. Class Photo Unidentified School

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

55. Shay with Load of Logs

Derelict train engine.

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

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

57. Lima Pacific Coast Shay

58. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Spruce town and mill.

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

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

60. 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.'

61. 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

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

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

63. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

64. Shays at Spruce Shop

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

65. Shay No. 8 and Crew

66. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

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

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

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

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

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

69. 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.

70. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

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

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

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

73. Deteriorating Sawmill

Train engine with man standing beside it.

74. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

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

75. Shay Wreck

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

76. Shay Wreck

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

77. Riding a Speeder

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

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

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

79. Sawmill Crew at Mill

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

80. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

81. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

82. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

83. 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.

84. Shay No. 4 Side View.

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

85. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man leaning against a train engine.

86. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

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

87. 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.

88. 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.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

90. Shay No. 6

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

91. Mixed White and African American Section Crew

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

92. Loader at Landing

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

93. Shay Front View

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

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

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

95. 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.

96. Shay No. 8 and Crew.