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Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

193. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

194. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

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

195. Shay No. 4 at Switch with Caboose, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

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

197. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

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

198. Deteriorating Sawmill

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

199. Sawmill

Lumber mill under contstruction.

200. Portion of Mill

201. Ditcher with Crew

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

202. Shay No. 11

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

203. Results of Blasting in Big Cut

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

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

205. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

206. Riding a Speeder

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

207. Shays at Spruce Shop

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

208. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Train engine with man standing beside it.

209. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

210. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

'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.

211. Sign in the Woods

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

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

Man leaning against a train engine.

213. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

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

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

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

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

216. Loader at Landing

217. Cass Shop Under Construction

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

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

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

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

Man working a steam shovel.

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

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

Men with horses, timber piles in the background.

222. Unloading Horses at Cass, W. Va.

Two men standing on a log being lifted up by a loader.

223. Loader and Crew - Loading Logs

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

224. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

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

225. 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.

226. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

228. Shay Locomotive

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

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

In 1900 Samuel Slaymaker, a timber broker, set up a construction camp at the mouth of Leatherbark Creek (the present site of the Cass Scenic Railroad shops).

230. Slaymaker, Samuel E.

Loader placing logs onto a Greenbrier and Elk Car.

231. 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.'

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

'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.'

233. Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.

Lima Shay c/n 3156 (192 tons) BH 1921 Class c 150, Rebuilt Cass shops Class 'D' 192 sitting on siding at Cass after final retirement in 1945? Scrapped Cass, W.Va. in 1951 or 55?  (Shay behind believed to be No. 13 c/n 1586 Class 'D' 150) BH 1906.  Gear Ratio 1 to 2.45.

234. Shay No. 12. Standing Ready to be Junked (Left Side View).

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

235. 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).

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

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.

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

Piles of logs on the edge of the forest.

238. Logs Cut on Sugar Creek, Webster County by the Ranwood Lumber Company

239. Dock for Air Drying Cut Lumber at Ranwood Lumber Company, Webster County, W. Va.

Standing right to left in the woods:  1. Geo Cromet  2. Ralph Riddle  3. Pat Lannan  4. Fred Lannan  5. --  Sitting right to left:  6. Charley Sealey  7. Larnce? Bradley  8. Andy Berriel  9.  Jess Tuesey?

240. Loggers Dressed Up inTheir Best