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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.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

50. Shay Locomotive

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.

51. Shay Engine (Close Up of Gears)

Man working a steam shovel.

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

'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!'

53. Shay Engine Controls

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

54. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

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

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

56. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

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

Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

58. Long Incline Up Hill

Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.

59. West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company No. 1 Loader

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.'

60. Big Cut One Mile from Spruce, W. Va. on the Elk River.

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

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

Five men standing in front of a train engine.

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

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

63. Cass, W. Va.

Shay train engine in front of a water tank.

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

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

65. Shay No. 11

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

66. Mill Engine, Spruce, W. Va.

"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.

67. Shay No. 2 and Loader No. 2

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

68. Shay No. 13 in Cass Yard

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.

69. Shay No. 2 and Loader No. 2

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

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

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

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

72. Shay No. 1 and Another Engine at Turn above Switchback. Cass Scenic Railroad

'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.

73. Sign in the Woods

Lumber pile beside a log car.

74. Loading Logs at Landing

75. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

Pictured with possibly his wife.

76. Shay locomotive and Engineer

77. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

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

North Fork Lumber Co. No. 3? could be Cheat and Elk.

79. Shay No. 3 in Woods with Loader and Crew

80. Lumbermen Pose in front of a Building

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

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

Train engine with a man standing beside it.

82. Shay No. 11 (Front 3/4 View)

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

83. Log Loader on Elk River

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

Distant photo of a Shay engine and steam shovel in between the cut in mountain.

85. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

86. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

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

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

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

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

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

89. Shay No. 4 and One Other Shay with Crowded Train on the Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of Shay train engine.

90. Shay No. 11 Side View

Unfinished engine shop.

91. Cass Shop Under Construction

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.

92. Shay No. 10 and Marion Steam Shovel in the Big Cut.

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

93. Results of Blasting in Big Cut

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

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

Two men standing at doorway in front of large building.

95. Loggers Posing in Front of Building

Men with horses, timber piles in the background.

96. Unloading Horses at Cass, W. Va.