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

3169. East-Side of Cass, W. Va.

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

3170. Shay No. 4 at Switch with Caboose, Cass Scenic Railroad

3171. Mower, Edwin (Portrait)

Portrait of Donald Mower (one of the twins).

3172. Mower, Donald (Portrait)

Man and girl standing beside a Shay train engine.

3173. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Ralph Tallman, Engineer, and Girl.

3174. Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Springy Galford, Engineer, and Girl.

Pictured with possibly his wife.

3175. Shay locomotive and Engineer

Deer Creek sign to the right, houses sit on the left side of the tracks.

3176. House and Deer Creek Town Sign on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Tracks.

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

3177. Baxter Auto Sales, Cass, W. Va.

Shay engines pulling passenger cars.

3178. Shay No. 3 and No. 1, Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay train engines on tracks.

3179. Shay No. 5 and No. 1, Cass Scenic Railroad

Five men standing in front of a train engine.

3180. Locomotive No. 1008. Western Maryland Rod Engine and Crew

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.

3181. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

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

3182. Shay No. 1 and Another Engine at Turn above Switchback. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

3183. Mill Engine, Spruce, W. Va.

Man rides speeder on railroad tracks.

3184. Riding a Speeder

Five men leaning on a cement bridge looking west.  Town in the background.

3185. Group of Men on Cement Bridge at Cass, W. Va.

Lumber pile beside a log car.

3186. Loading Logs at Landing

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

3187. Log Loader on Elk River

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

3188. Shay No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Tracks with Crews

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

3189. Mixed White and African American Section Crew

Aerial view of East Cass showing 'Shorty's Restaurant' and buildings along side the river.

3190. East-Side of Cass, W. Va.

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

3191. Shay No. 6

3192. Shay No. 7 Front 3/4

3193. Shay No. 12 Left Side View

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

3194. Shay No. 13 in Cass Yard

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

3195. Shay No. 12 Looking Down from Coal Ramp at Sand House

3196. Hotel and Other Houses at Cass, W. Va.

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

3197. Sawmill Crew at Mill

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

3198. Cass, W. Va.

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

3199. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

Men stand atop logs in car on tracks. Appears to be Narrow Guage.

3200. Loggers loading a Log Car

Group of women on porch, possibly a hotel or boarding house.

3201. Lumber Town Women Posing on the Porch of their Boardinghouse

3202. Cass Yard - Log Cars, Coal Cars and Old Model T with Steel Wheels on Track.

3203. East-side of Cass, W. Va. 'Negroe shanties,' in flood, looking across to main part of town.

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.

3204. Shay No. 4 Rear View with 3 Loads of Dirt on 10-30 yd Cars. (Not the Big Cut)

Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.

3205. Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.

Men standing on big steam shovel beside dump cars.

3206. Marion Steam Shovel in Big Cut with Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Dump Cars.

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.

3207. Band Mill in State of Disrepair at Cass, W. Va.

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

3208. Shay Left Hand Full View in front of Coal Trestle.

Train tracks going up a steep hill through the forest.

3209. Long Incline Up Hill

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

3210. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

3211. Blackhurst, Warren 'Tweard' - Looking out Window

3212. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Walter Good applies wrench to the grease cups lubricating the side rods of his engine before going up on the Mt. while fireman, Paul Bradley looks on.  Both were veterans of log hauling days before passengers where hauled on Cass Scenic Railroad.

3213. Engineer Walter Good and Fireman Paul Bradley Adjust Grease Cups

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.

3214. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

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

3215. Shay Front View

Side view of Shay train engine.

3216. Shay No. 11 Side View

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

3217. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

Side view of train engine.

3218. 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.

3219. Shay No. 4 Side View.

Shay train engine in front of a water tank.

3220. Shay No. 13 at Cass, W. Va. Water Tank

Three men standing on top of a stack.  Cass, WV.

3221. Crew Posing on top of Stack No. 1 at Cass Lumber Mill (during construction)

Mill with old stumps in foreground.

3222. Lumber Mill at Spruce, W. Va.

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

3223. Shay No. 5 and No. 7 at Cass Station.

Unfinished engine shop.

3224. Cass Shop Under Construction

Group of male workers.

3225. Logging Crew

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?"

3226. Shay No. 10 at Water Tank

W.Va. Pulp and Paper Company.  Keeper's house on far shore.  Grant County, W.Va.

3227. Stoney River Dam

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

3228. Shay No. 8 at Water Tanks, With Crew Front-Side

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

3229. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Shay No. 7 train engine from the side.

3230. Shay No. 7. Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of Shay train engine.

3231. Shay No. 7 Cass Scenic Railroad

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

3232. 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.

3233. Shay No. 3 with Crew and Load of Logs.

Side view of train engine beside forest.

3234. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1)

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

3235. Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1) at Switch (3/4 Front)

Mill machinery

3236. Hamilton Steam Engine

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Locomotive train engine with caboose on train tracks.

3237. Heisler No. 6 and Caboose No. 90788D.

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

3238. Shay No. 5 with Loaded Passenger Cars.

3239. Sawmill and Lumber Yard in Full Operation

Crew members pose in front of ditcher.

3240. Ditcher with Crew

3241. Lumber Mill Fire

Logs float on pond.

3242. Unloading Logs at the Mill Pond, Cass, W. Va.

3243. Shay No. 2 on Iron Trestle with Box Cars

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

3244. Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew

Cleared out space in the forest at Spruce, W.Va.  Photo made from a Kodachrome slide.

3245. Location of the Town of Spruce, W. Va.

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

3246. Shay No. 4 with Gondola Back View, Mower Lumber Co.

Shay No. 3 engine beside a hill of logs.

3247. Shay No. 3 (Greenbrier and Elk River Railway)

Lumber mill with town in the background.

3248. Lumber Mill and Town of Spruce, W. Va.

Train engine on tracks beside a hill.

3249. Shay No. 4 (Front 3/4 View)

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

3250. Shay No. 3 and Crew (3/4 Front)

3251. Rod Engine No. 509 and Crew

Train engine with two workers in front of it.

3252. Shay No. 5 with Crew, Front 1/4

Train engine with two men beside of it.

3253. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4

Train engine with building behind it.

3254. Shay No. 12 at Shop in Cass, W. Va.

Lumber mill surrounded by piles of wood.

3255. Lumber Mill and Wood Yard, Spruce, W. Va.

Covered bridge in background.

3256. Arks in River

Showing houses and boardwalk.

3257. Front Street, Cass, W. Va.

Weight 60 Tons.  Engineer, George Crawford; Courtesy of Robert Dean; Sayre, Pa.

3258. Marion Shovel Used in the Big Cut

Large group of men in front of a building beside a railroad track.

3259. Camp No. 2, WP and P Co. with Crew

Part of a mill collapsing.

3260. Planing Mill Collapse (Where Logs Were Planed)

Camp beside a railroad.  Men working around camp area.

3261. Small Logging Camp on Railroad

Men standing on and in front of train.  One man off to the side in the back.  Original from C.B. Cromer.

3262. Shay No. 4 with Crew Front.

3263. Lumber Mill Fire

Lumber piles by a train track.

3264. Cut Lumber Awaiting Transport