Take the high road or the low road? Passengers get to experience both with this switchback...

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #5 along with Western Maryland Shay 6 take on water at Oats run during the trip to Bald Knob. Sitting on a 8% grade, the mighty shay engines will have to give all they ha... (more)

Fireman Jerry Beck checks the fire of Shay #5 as we coast down the mountain to Cass.

Shay #5 pauses by a waterfall at the lower switchback after helping the Halloween train up the hill. The waterfall on the right is one of many around the upper and lower switch... (more)

Shay #5 does some switching in the Cass yard.

Elevation 4,700

The smoke belches out of the stack of Western Maryland Shay 6 during the final push to Bald Knob. In the distance sets the Greenbank Telescope, the Worlds largest fully steerable radio telescope.

As the track begins to level out shay 6 pops off as it comes to a stop at Bald Knob.

Flying high above Bald Knob, the Bald Knob train is seen shortly after making the 11 mile trip up the mountain from Cass. Some patches of snow still remain from the weekends snowfall. At a elevati... (more)

Shay 11 heads out of the upper switchback as it approaches Whittaker Station.

Shay 6 drifts downgrade from Bald Knob. With temperatures in the 20's, the passengers were eager to get off the mountain on this day.

Shay 5 is seen at the emergency water tank below Bald Knob with a light dusting of snow which occurred over night. On our way down the mountain the snow wold begin to pick up and a additional 3 in... (more)

Shay 5 drifts downgrade after helping the Bald Knob train up the hill earlier in the day. You may notice the beginnings of the frost line, the higher elevations received a light dusting overnight ... (more)

Where it all started! Built in 1919 Climax #6 spent most of her life as the road engine for the Moore Keppel & Co hauling logs out of the nearby woods until the mill closed in 1946. It was... (more)

From the Archives I Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #2 and 11 doublehead around Gum Curve during late Fall 2006.