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

1. Shay Locomotive

Train crew and other men stand in front of an engine.

2. Shay Locomotive and Crew

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

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

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

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

Side view of train engine beside forest.

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

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

6. Shay No. 8 and Crew

C.H. Holden seated on one of Ranwood Lumber Company's Shay Engines.

7. Holden, C. H. President of the Ranwood Lumber Company,

Train travels through a wooded area.

8. Switch-back Railroad

9. Holden, C. H. and Engineer Paul Wassner next to the Engine 'Boot Jack'

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

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

Train engine with two men beside of it.

11. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4

Locomotive on tracks with crew posing on the engine.

12. Locomotive No. 2 and Crew

Class C Shay.  Shay train engine no. 11 pulling log carts.  Men are in the cabin.  Two people walking beside the train.

13. Shay No. 11 and Log Cars

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

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

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

15. Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew

Train engine with man standing beside it.

16. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

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

17. Shay Wreck

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

18. Shay Wreck

Shay locomotive and derrick car on tracks above derailed train engine.  Crew posing on engine.

19. Logging Train Derailment

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

20. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Train engine going around a bend while pulling logs.

21. Shay No. 3 Pulling Log Cars

Engine No. 900 'Old Maude' on tracks.  Built in Lima for Wm., sold to next NW RR in 1910.

22. Engine No. 900 'Old Maude' on Tracks

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

23. 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.

24. Shay No. 4 Side View.

Man leaning against a train engine.

25. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

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.

26. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

27. Shay No. 6

Crew members pose beside train engine pulling lumber car.

28. Shay No. 2 with Engineers and Logging Crew

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

29. Shay Front View

Train engine beside a hillside.  Man in the cabin of the train with W. M. on the Door.

30. Locomotive

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

31. Shay No. 8 and Crew.

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.

32. 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.

33. 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).

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

Shay locomotive traveling along tracks.

35. Shay Locomotive

Western Maryland Engine 954, old engine used on the Hendricks.  Crew posed beside and on engine.

36. Western Maryland Engine No. 954 Used on the Hendricks with Crew

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

37. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Etching of a logging train on a trestle.

38. Etching of a Logging Train

Shay No. 3 engine beside a hill of logs.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

40. Shay Locomotive

Western Maryland train engine No. 513 built by Baldwin in 1905.

41. Western Maryland Engine No. 513 Built by Baldwin 1905

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.

42. 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!'

43. Shay Engine Controls

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

44. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Three loggers stand beside a logging train.

45. Loggers and Log Train

Three men standing in front of a train engine pulling lumber cars.

46. Locomotive with Engineer, Fireman, and Brakeman.

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

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

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?"

48. Shay No. 10 at Water Tank