Sweet Appalachia. Shay 5 steams through the hills that she's called home since her birth.

Cass Scenic 4 and 5 stand ready on the old C&O Greenbrier Division main line to head up the hill towards Old Spruce on the first day of Railfan Weekend 2013.

Shay No. 4 rests outside the Cass shops, on a pleasant May evening within the quiet hollows of West Virginia..

Exhibiting scars from years of service on Cass Hill, Cass Scenic Shay No. 5 has been called a “dented, sway-backed carcass” with “not a straight line on her.” The 80-ton Shay was delivered to the... (more)

Shay No. 5 puts on an impressive show with a short freight in the Cass yard.

How's this for a heritage paint scheme? When the Cass line was saved for use as a tourist railroad, it ran one trip (in 1961) for the NRHS, with both Shay locomotives used that day lettered for th... (more)

Western Maryland Shay 6 performs a smoky runby at the Cass depot during the 2013 MSRLHA Railfan Weekend.

During Railfan Weekend's Shay runbys on Saturday morning, I went a little more "nose on" than most other folks, in an attempt to include all five Shay engines in the shot. (See No. 3 back there by... (more)

When the 1923 C&O depot at Cass burned down in 1975, it was replaced with this replica depot that combines decorative elements of an earlier, smaller C&O depot that stood at Cass with the floor pl... (more)

Slicing through a thick fog, Shay No. 11 stops short of the passenger train and its caboose during a lunch stop at Bald Knob. An MSRLHA event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Cass Scenic Ra... (more)

Emerging from the thick fog at the top of the mountain at Bald Knob, Shay No. 11 and its freight consist hold short of the rear caboose on the passenger train. Despite preceding Memorial Day weeke... (more)

At 103 tons, Cass Scenic No. 11 (ex- Feather River Railway No. 3) is one of the largest Shays operating in the United States. (Of course, it pales in comparison to the 162-ton Western Maryland No... (more)

On a cold and dreary day on the mountain, Shay No. 11 leads a freight toward Bald Knob, passing the emergency water stop above Spruce. An MSRLHA event.

Come rain or come shine, the trains still run. Cass Shay #11 shoves excursion cars toward the yard during a late afternoon downpour.

Shay No. 4 performs a photo run-by as Cass, W.Va., on a pleasant morning during their annual Railfan Weekend. An MSRLHA event.