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1. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Spruce town and mill.

2. Spruce, W. Va. Town and Lumber Mill

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

3. Marion Shovel Used in the Big Cut

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

4. Shay Locomotive

'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.'

5. Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.

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

6. 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

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

Covered bridge in background.

8. Arks in River

Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.

9. Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad

Side view of train engine beside forest.

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

Cass - Greenbrier Excursion. Cass, W.Va.

11. Rod Engine on Passenger Run at Depot

Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.

12. Shays at Spruce Shop

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

13. Shay No. 8 and Crew

14. Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop

15. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders) Side View with a Second Shay

Early stage of mill construction.

16. Rebuilding of the Mill after the Burning of One Stack, Cass, W. Va.

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

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

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

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

Train engine with two men beside of it.

19. Shay No. 4 Front 3/4

Cass Mill in Backround (6 Stacks).

20. Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Train at Depot

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

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

Men walking past a wrecked train.

22. Shay Wreck

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

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

Train engine with building behind it.

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

25. Shay No. 5 at Cumberland, Maryland (Western Maryland Railway Company)

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.

26. Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,

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

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

Train engine with two workers in front of it.

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

Shay train engines on tracks.

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

Cut trees clear a path in the woods.

30. Clearing for Grade

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

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

Train engine side shot. (Photo from Andy Burrell Collection) Photo has Benj. F. G. Kline, Jr. stamp on it.

32. Climax No. 6 Side View.

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

33. Deteriorating Sawmill

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

34. Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew

Train engine with man standing beside it.

35. Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front

Men standing in front of an unfinished building.

36. Loggers at Partially Built Camp

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

37. Shay Wreck

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

38. Shay Wreck

Man riding a speeder on a train track.

39. Riding a Speeder

40. Sawmill and Lumber Yard in Full Operation

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

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

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

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

Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.

43. Sawmill Crew at Mill

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

44. Shay No. 11 Front 3/4

45. Teamster and Team Skidding Logs

Two train engines and two men in front of them.

46. Shay No. 1 and Shay No. 4 Front View of the Left Side

Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.

47. Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs

48. Lumber Mill and Log Pond

Cass Scenic Railroad.  Two trains connected on a railroad track.

49. Shay No. 3 and One Other

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

50. Shay No. 4 with Crew Front.

Mill machinery

51. Hamilton Steam Engine

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

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

Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.

53. 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.

54. Shay No. 4 Side View.

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

55. Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.

Man leaning against a train engine.

56. Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew

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

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

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.

58. Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)

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.

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

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

60. Shay No. 6

Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.

61. Mixed White and African American Section Crew

Man sitting in a chair looking off to the side.

62. Unidentified Man

63. Portrait of a Man and Three Woman on a Porch.

Cars full of logs at the loader landing.

64. Loader at Landing

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

65. Shay Front View

66. Lumber Mill Fire

Business section of Cass, W.Va.  Cass wagon fording river.  Swinging bridge on the side.

67. Cass, W. Va. (Looking East at Business Section)

68. Horse Teams and Loggers Lined Up Before Stable

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

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

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

70. Shay No. 8 and Crew.

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

71. Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad

Man rides speeder on railroad tracks.

72. Riding a Speeder

Showing houses and boardwalk.

73. Front Street, Cass, W. Va.

Logs float on pond.

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

Men standing in front and on top of train wreckage.

75. Train Wreck on Cup Run

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

76. Sawmill

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.

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

Clearing in the Spruce Woods.  Original 8 x 10 in.

78. Clearing for Grade, Spruce Woods

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

79. 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).

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

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

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

Lumber mill under contstruction.

82. Portion of Mill

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.

83. Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad

View from coal dock.  John Warner standing on locomotive.

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

Side view of train engine.

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

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

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

87. Stoney River Dam

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

88. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Train engine on tracks beside a hill.

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

Twelve cars at end of switch back, 6% grade on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad, pulled by 95 ton Shay Locomotive.

90. Shay No. 5 with Log Cars

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

Mill Machinery.

92. Hamilton Steam Engine

Shay No. 3 engine beside a hill of logs.

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

Man in front of an oven.  Note the loaves of bread, this lasts one day.  Note stove.

94. Tyree, Fred - Camp Cook

3/4 front view of Shay train engine.

95. Shay Locomotive

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.

96. Shay Engine (Close Up of Gears)