Search Results
IDNO:
000351
Title:
Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000533
Title:
Spruce, W. Va. Town and Lumber Mill
Date:
undated
Description:
Spruce town and mill.
IDNO:
000284
Title:
Marion Shovel Used in the Big Cut
Date:
undated
Description:
Weight 60 Tons. Engineer, George Crawford; Courtesy of Robert Dean; Sayre, Pa.
IDNO:
000472
Title:
Shay Locomotive
Date:
undated
Description:
3/4 front view of Shay train engine with man standing on the front end.
IDNO:
000486
Title:
Houses in Cheat Bridge, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
'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.'
IDNO:
000329
Title:
Shay No. 8 at Water Tanks, With Crew Front-Side
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of Shay #8 train engine. Two crew members in the front, two crew members in the train engine.
IDNO:
000488
Title:
Shay No. 3 on Wooden Trestle with Load of Logs.
Date:
undated
Description:
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
IDNO:
000286
Title:
Arks in River
Date:
undated
Description:
Covered bridge in background.
IDNO:
000353
Title:
Shay No. 4 Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
Philip Bagdon looking at Shay #4 train engine.
IDNO:
000321
Title:
Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1)
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of train engine beside forest.
IDNO:
000240
Title:
Rod Engine on Passenger Run at Depot
Date:
undated
Description:
Cass - Greenbrier Excursion. Cass, W.Va.
IDNO:
000442
Title:
Shays at Spruce Shop
Date:
undated
Description:
Four Shay train engines at the Spruce Shop.
IDNO:
000513
Title:
Shay No. 8 and Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
Shay train engine No. 8 with five men standing beside it.
IDNO:
000447
Title:
Fire Damage at Cass Repair Shop
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000257
Title:
Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders) Side View with a Second Shay
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000251
Title:
Rebuilding of the Mill after the Burning of One Stack, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Early stage of mill construction.
IDNO:
000320
Title:
Shay No. 1 (2nd No. 1) at Switch (3/4 Front)
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine on tracks. Lots of smoke coming from stack.
IDNO:
000393
Title:
Group of Men on Cement Bridge at Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Five men leaning on a cement bridge looking west. Town in the background.
IDNO:
000291
Title:
Shay No. 4 Front 3/4
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine with two men beside of it.
IDNO:
000249
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Train at Depot
Date:
undated
Description:
Cass Mill in Backround (6 Stacks).
IDNO:
000424
Title:
East-Side of Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
View of East Cass showing Shorty's Restaurant and buildings.
IDNO:
000243
Title:
Shay Wreck
Date:
undated
Description:
Men walking past a wrecked train.
IDNO:
000423
Title:
Shay No. 4 at Switch with Caboose, Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
C.S.R. Engine at the switch. Man bending over beside it.
IDNO:
000290
Title:
Shay No. 12 at Shop in Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine with building behind it.
IDNO:
000254
Title:
Shay No. 5 at Cumberland, Maryland (Western Maryland Railway Company)
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000397
Title:
Shay No. 4, Cass Scenic Railroad,
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
IDNO:
000304
Title:
Location of the Town of Spruce, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Cleared out space in the forest at Spruce, W.Va. Photo made from a Kodachrome slide.
IDNO:
000292
Title:
Shay No. 5 with Crew, Front 1/4
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine with two workers in front of it.
IDNO:
000403
Title:
Shay No. 5 and No. 1, Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
Shay train engines on tracks.
IDNO:
000265
Title:
Clearing for Grade
Date:
undated
Description:
Cut trees clear a path in the woods.
IDNO:
000459
Title:
Hotel (Baker House), Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Hotel at Cass showing several men on the porches and on the ground. Front view.
IDNO:
000270
Title:
Climax No. 6 Side View.
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine side shot. (Photo from Andy Burrell Collection) Photo has Benj. F. G. Kline, Jr. stamp on it.
IDNO:
000426
Title:
Deteriorating Sawmill
Date:
undated
Description:
Lumber mill, train tracks, 6 smoke-stacks, and lumber piles.
IDNO:
000306
Title:
Shay No. 10 Side View, with Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of train engine with nine crew members standing in front of it.
IDNO:
000446
Title:
Shay No. 12 Partial View of Front
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine with man standing beside it.
IDNO:
000262
Title:
Loggers at Partially Built Camp
Date:
undated
Description:
Men standing in front of an unfinished building.
IDNO:
000526
Title:
Shay Wreck
Date:
undated
Description:
Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.
IDNO:
000525
Title:
Shay Wreck
Date:
undated
Description:
Men walking around the remains of a wrecked Shay train engine.
IDNO:
000441
Title:
Riding a Speeder
Date:
undated
Description:
Man riding a speeder on a train track.
IDNO:
000316
Title:
Sawmill and Lumber Yard in Full Operation
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000524
Title:
Shay No. 12 (R.O. 6) in front of Pulp Shed, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Mower Lumber Company train engine. In doorway: Granville Barkley. In Window: Guy Stanley.
IDNO:
000450
Title:
Lumber Mill and Town of Spruce, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Mill and buildings in the town of Spruce, W.Va.
IDNO:
000375
Title:
Sawmill Crew at Mill
Date:
undated
Description:
Group portrait of lumber crew, mill in background.
IDNO:
000346
Title:
Shay No. 11 Front 3/4
Date:
undated
Description:
Front view of a Shay train engine with forest in the background.
IDNO:
000234
Title:
Teamster and Team Skidding Logs
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000256
Title:
Shay No. 1 and Shay No. 4 Front View of the Left Side
Date:
undated
Description:
Two train engines and two men in front of them.
IDNO:
000373
Title:
Shay No. 1 on Cheat with Logs
Date:
undated
Description:
Shay engine with log cars traveling along hillside.
IDNO:
000425
Title:
Lumber Mill and Log Pond
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000264
Title:
Shay No. 3 and One Other
Date:
undated
Description:
Cass Scenic Railroad. Two trains connected on a railroad track.
IDNO:
000276
Title:
Shay No. 4 with Crew Front.
Date:
undated
Description:
Men standing on and in front of train. One man off to the side in the back. Original from C.B. Cromer.
IDNO:
000319
Title:
Hamilton Steam Engine
Date:
undated
Description:
Mill machinery
IDNO:
000281
Title:
Camp No. 2, WP and P Co. with Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
Large group of men in front of a building beside a railroad track.
IDNO:
000389
Title:
Shay No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Tracks with Crews
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engines and crews line railroad tracks.
IDNO:
000344
Title:
Shay No. 4 Side View.
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of a train engine. Picture taken from 2nd level of boiler room of the mill.
IDNO:
000439
Title:
Pulp Mill, Spruce, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Pulp Mill in Spruce W.Va. Train tracks visible.
IDNO:
000451
Title:
Shay Locomotive Front 3/4 VIew
Date:
undated
Description:
Man leaning against a train engine.
IDNO:
000368
Title:
Lumber Town Women Posing on the Porch of their Boardinghouse
Date:
undated
Description:
Group of women on porch, possibly a hotel or boarding house.
IDNO:
000473
Title:
Shay No. 1 (Slanting Cylinders)
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
IDNO:
000358
Title:
Band Mill in State of Disrepair at Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
IDNO:
000385
Title:
Shay No. 6
Date:
undated
Description:
3/4 front view of Shay train engine.
IDNO:
000388
Title:
Mixed White and African American Section Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
Mixed crew of Whites and Blacks.
IDNO:
000272
Title:
Unidentified Man
Date:
undated
Description:
Man sitting in a chair looking off to the side.
IDNO:
000263
Title:
Portrait of a Man and Three Woman on a Porch.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000455
Title:
Loader at Landing
Date:
undated
Description:
Cars full of logs at the loader landing.
IDNO:
000348
Title:
Shay Front View
Date:
undated
Description:
Front view of Shay train engine. Man standing beside of it.
IDNO:
000312
Title:
Lumber Mill Fire
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000511
Title:
Cass, W. Va. (Looking East at Business Section)
Date:
undated
Description:
Business section of Cass, W.Va. Cass wagon fording river. Swinging bridge on the side.
IDNO:
000233
Title:
Horse Teams and Loggers Lined Up Before Stable
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000342
Title:
Crew Posing on top of Stack No. 1 at Cass Lumber Mill (during construction)
Date:
undated
Description:
Three men standing on top of a stack. Cass, WV.
IDNO:
000510
Title:
Shay No. 8 and Crew.
Date:
undated
Description:
3/4 front view of Shay train engine No. 8. Five men standing beside the train engine.
IDNO:
000470
Title:
Railroad Men on Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
Two men shaking hands. One man is wearing a conductor hat.
IDNO:
000394
Title:
Riding a Speeder
Date:
undated
Description:
Man rides speeder on railroad tracks.
IDNO:
000285
Title:
Front Street, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Showing houses and boardwalk.
IDNO:
000311
Title:
Unloading Logs at the Mill Pond, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Logs float on pond.
IDNO:
000235
Title:
Train Wreck on Cup Run
Date:
undated
Description:
Men standing in front and on top of train wreckage.
IDNO:
000428
Title:
Sawmill
Date:
undated
Description:
Front view of a mill and stacks. C&O train cars in front.
IDNO:
000363
Title:
Shay No. 4 Rear View with 3 Loads of Dirt on 10-30 yd Cars. (Not the Big Cut)
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
IDNO:
000266
Title:
Clearing for Grade, Spruce Woods
Date:
undated
Description:
Clearing in the Spruce Woods. Original 8 x 10 in.
IDNO:
000380
Title:
Shay No. 12 Looking Down from Coal Ramp at Sand House
Date:
undated
Description:
View looking down on Shay train engine. Man standing on engine.
IDNO:
000490
Title:
Shay No. 3 and 12, Builder's Photographs
Date:
undated
Description:
Shay No. 12 of the Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Company (top) and Shay No. 3 of the Raine Lumber Company (bottom).
IDNO:
000318
Title:
Heisler No. 6 and Caboose No. 90788D.
Date:
undated
Description:
Cass Scenic Railroad. Locomotive train engine with caboose on train tracks.
IDNO:
000429
Title:
Portion of Mill
Date:
undated
Description:
Lumber mill under contstruction.
IDNO:
000349
Title:
Shay No. 4. Cass Scenic Railroad
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
IDNO:
000521
Title:
Shay No. 12 at Cass Shop, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
View from coal dock. John Warner standing on locomotive.
IDNO:
000345
Title:
Shay No. 12 Rear View Showing Added Trucks and Water Tank
Date:
undated
Description:
Side view of train engine.
IDNO:
000367
Title:
Cass Yard - Log Cars, Coal Cars and Old Model T with Steel Wheels on Track.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000331
Title:
Stoney River Dam
Date:
undated
Description:
W.Va. Pulp and Paper Company. Keeper's house on far shore. Grant County, W.Va.
IDNO:
000323
Title:
Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut
Date:
undated
Description:
Tracks run along cut in hillside. Train engine back in the distance.
IDNO:
000296
Title:
Shay No. 4 (Front 3/4 View)
Date:
undated
Description:
Train engine on tracks beside a hill.
IDNO:
000242
Title:
Shay No. 5 with Log Cars
Date:
undated
Description:
Twelve cars at end of switch back, 6% grade on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad, pulled by 95 ton Shay Locomotive.
IDNO:
000419
Title:
Shay No. 14 at Cass, W. Va. with Springy Galford, Engineer, and Girl.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000267
Title:
Hamilton Steam Engine
Date:
undated
Description:
Mill Machinery.
IDNO:
000299
Title:
Shay No. 3 (Greenbrier and Elk River Railway)
Date:
undated
Description:
Shay No. 3 engine beside a hill of logs.
IDNO:
000269
Title:
Tyree, Fred - Camp Cook
Date:
undated
Description:
Man in front of an oven. Note the loaves of bread, this lasts one day. Note stove.
IDNO:
000476
Title:
Shay Locomotive
Date:
undated
Description:
3/4 front view of Shay train engine.
IDNO:
000503
Title:
Shay Engine (Close Up of Gears)
Date:
undated
Description:
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.