The Cass water tower is silhouetted against the night sky on a clear summer evening.

The Milky Way glows over the C&O Water Tower.

The Milky Way lights up the night sky over the Cass water tower.

Shay 5 renamed for Mower Lumber Company # 5 takes the log train toward spruce.

Shay # 11 ready for a days work

Cass railfan weekend 3 shay race featuring shay 6

Cass 5 with the log train at the wye

The scene many of us have grown to know and love Cass for: 3 Shays rock and roll down the old C&O "racing" side by side as they fill the Greenbrier Valley with clouds of smoke and steam.

The Cass Crew: Engineer Dirk Calocia waits for a orders to move.

Shay 4 surmounts the 9% grade into Whittaker.

Shay 4 performs runbys alongside Leatherbark Creek.

The Cass Crew: A face familiar to many visitors to the Cass Scenic RR over the past 20+ years, engineer Danny Seldomridge pilots the "big 6" through the yard at Cass.

With cylinder cocks open, Shay 11 backs past the ruins of the old WV Pulp and Paper Mill.

The Cass Crew: Firewoman Amy Beck goes about the daily rituals of readying her engine by tightening down the spark arrester.

In a scene repeated thousands of times, and hopefully thousands more to come, a Shay backs out of the yard headed to the station with cylinder cocks open. The building in the foreground was the dr... (more)