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1. Shay No. 11 Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Birch Valley Lumber Co. Train. P.E. Percy, Lima Locomotive Works; CO 359 = Shop #3189 (12 22)

2. Shay No. 5. Builders Photo of Birch Valley Lumber Co. Train.

Train engine 2102 on a bridge.

3. Locomotive No. 2102 on Iron Bridge.

Shay No. 6 engine on tracks.  Published by C.E. Armstrong.

4. Shay No. 6 (Mountain Locomotive) New River Coal Field, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

Four men and a boy pose beside and on a train engine.

5. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1) with Crew and Small Boy (Side View)

Train engine with two men beside of it.

6. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4

7. Rod Engine No. 509 and Crew

Train engine with crew standing in front and top of it.

8. Shay No. 3 and Crew (3/4 Front)

Shay No. 3 engine beside a hill of logs.

9. Shay No. 3 (Greenbrier and Elk River Railway)

Train engine on tracks with engineer looking back out of the window.

10. Shay No. 4 with Gondola Back View, Mower Lumber Co.

Side view of train engine with nine crew members standing in front of it.

11. Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew

12. Shay No. 2 on Iron Trestle with Box Cars

Train engine on tracks.  Lots of smoke coming from stack.

13. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1) at Switch (3/4 Front)

Side view of train engine beside forest.

14. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1)

Train engine with log carts and four of its crew members standing in front of it.  (Left Side 3/4 Front) Charles Cramer and Alt Cramer.

15. Shay No. 3 with Crew and Load of Logs.

Tracks run along cut in hillside.  Train engine back in the distance.

16. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Side view of Shay #8 train engine.  Two crew members in the front, two crew members in the train engine.

17. Shay No. 8 at Water Tanks, With Crew Front-Side

Front left side 3/4.  On back of original photo it says, "I was the first engineer, got her new from Lima, Ohio.  Robert Dean? or A.E. Perkins?"

18. Shay No. 10 at Water Tank

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

19. Shay No. 4 Side View.

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

20. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Side view of Shay train engine.

21. Shay No. 11 Side View

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

22. Shay Front View

Side view of Shay train engine beside a trestle.  Original from C.B. Cromer

23. Shay Left Hand Full View in front of Coal Trestle.

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.

24. 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.

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

26. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

27. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

28. Shay No. 6

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

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

Five men standing in front of a train engine.

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

Pictured with possibly his wife.

31. Shay locomotive and Engineer

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

32. Shay No. 11

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

33. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Train engine with man standing beside it.

34. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

Man leaning against a train engine.

35. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

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

36. 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.

37. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

38. Shay Locomotive

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

43. Shay Engine (Close Up of Gears)

'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!'

44. Shay Engine Controls

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

45. Shay No. 8 and Crew.

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

46. Shay No. 8 and Crew

3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 6.

47. Shay No. 6

Train engine with a man standing beside it.

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