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Western Maryland Engine No. 6 with conductor.

1. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

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

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

Western Maryland Railroad Engine No. 6 on tracks.  Bedr. Lima Date 4-1945, No. 3354 at Vindex, Md.  8-19-1946 to B&D Museum 9-9-1953.   Picture originally property of Clair E. Matheny, Elkins, W. Va.

3. Western Maryland Engine No. 6

Shay locomotive traveling along tracks.

4. Shay Locomotive

A close-up view of Shay Engine #10 and crew. Engineer is Vern Nelson.

5. Shay No. 10 and Crew

Engine hauling a string of flat cars piled with logs.

6. Logging Train Hauling a String of Flat Cars Piled With Logs

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

7. Logging Train Derailment

Side view of a train engine and crew members standing in front of it.

8. Shay Locomotive of the Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad

Men sitting on wreckage below trestle.

9. Shay Wreck over a Trestle

Train engine carrying a cart of logs.  Crew members pose for photograph.

10. Shay No. 6 Carrying Logs With Crew

Crew workers standing with a train engine.

11. Shay No. 7 and Crew Near Lumber Mill

Train engine pulling part of a wrecked train.  Crew members standing on crane car.

12. Shay Locomotive Carrying Part of a Wrecked Engine

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

13. Shay Locomotive and Crew

Train engine on tracks moving past a railroad spill.

14. Shay Locomotive

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

15. Shay No. 11 and Log Cars

Train engine going around a bend while pulling logs.

16. Shay No. 3 Pulling Log Cars

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

17. Locomotive

The Jacob L. Rumbarger Lumber Company Shay No. 1 hauling log cars. Crew rolls logs into the water from the train.

18. Log Train Unloading at Blackwater Branch of Cheat River

Train pulling lumber carts in Dobbin, W.Va.

19. Shay No. 2 on the Dobbin Line

20. Shay No. 4, Chaffey's Log Engine, William, W. Va.

The Jacob L. Rumbarger Lumber Company's Shay locomotive, No. 1 and crew unloading logs.

21. Train Unloading Logs at Black Water Branch of Cheat River

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

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

Logs to be unloaded, in the pond of the Ranwood Lumber Company, at Pickens, W.Va.

23. Log Train

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

24. Locomotive with Engineer, Fireman, and Brakeman.

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

Bridge over the Back Fork of the Elk River gave way dropping the engine into the river.

26. Collapsed Bridge

Train engine and other machinery in logging area.

27. Logging Operation at Montes; Fred Brown, Engineer

Crew members pose beside train engine pulling lumber car.

28. Shay No. 2 with Engineers and Logging Crew

Lumber crew poses with locomotive.

29. New Dominion Lumber Company Logging Crew with Locomotive Eva Lee, Diana, W. Va.

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

30. Shay Wreck

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

31. Shay Wreck

Mower Lumber Company train engine.  In doorway:  Granville Barkley.  In Window:  Guy Stanley.

32. Shay No. 12 (R.O. 6) in front of Pulp Shed, Cass, W. Va.

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

33. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

View from coal dock.  John Warner standing on locomotive.

34. Shay No. 12 at Cass Shop, Cass, W. Va.

Train engine with a man standing beside it.

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

Shay train engine No. 7 on the Cass Scenic Railroad.

36. Shay No. 7, Cass Scenic Railroad

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

37. Shay No. 6

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

38. Shay No. 8 and Crew

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

39. Shay No. 8 and Crew.

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.

40. Shay No. 2 and Loader No. 2

'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!'

41. Shay Engine Controls

"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.

42. Shay No. 2 and Loader No. 2

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

Two train engines pushing passenger cars up hill.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

51. Shay Locomotive

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

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

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.

53. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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

54. Shay Locomotive

Shay train engine in the Cass Shop.

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

Man leaning against a train engine.

56. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

Train engine with man standing beside it.

57. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

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

58. Shay No. 7, Front 3/4

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

59. Shays at Spruce Shop

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

60. Shay No. 11

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

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

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

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

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

Pictured with possibly his wife.

64. Shay locomotive and Engineer

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

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

Shay train engines on tracks.

66. Shay No. 5 and No. 1, 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.

67. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

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

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

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

70. Shay No. 6

71. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

72. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

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

73. Shay No. 13 in Cass Yard

View looking down on Shay train engine.  Man standing on engine.

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

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

75. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

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.

76. Shay No. 4 Rear View with 3 Loads of Dirt on 10-30 yd Cars. (Not the Big Cut)

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

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

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

78. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

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.

79. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

80. Shay Front View

Side view of Shay train engine.

81. Shay No. 11 Side View

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

82. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Side view of train engine.

83. Shay No. 12 Rear View Showing Added Trucks and Water Tank

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

84. Shay No. 4 Side View.

Shay train engine in front of a water tank.

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

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

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

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?"

87. Shay No. 10 at Water Tank

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

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

Side view of Shay No. 7 train engine. Tracks in foreground.

89. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay No. 7 train engine from the side.

90. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of Shay train engine.

91. Shay No. 7 Cass Scenic Railroad

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

92. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

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.

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

Side view of train engine beside forest.

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

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

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

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Train engine with loaded passenger cars on tracks beside hill and forest.

96. Shay No. 5 with Loaded Passenger Cars.