Veteran Cass Engineer Danny and West Virginia Central Trainmaster Matt clear the area ahead as Western Maryland Shay #6 pulls its special excursion train out of Cheat Bridge Station and heads sout... (more)

The one and only "Big Six" poses for the assembled photogs in front of the Elkins Depot on the first night of her visit.

Western Maryland Shay #6 brings her excursion consist onto the platform lead at Elkins for the final time as she prepares to board her passengers and depart for home at Cass.

Western Maryland Shay 6 screams through the town of Junior in what is a very West Virginia-looking scene to me. What could be a better birthday present to me!

Western Maryland Shay #6 crosses the Tygart River in Elkins for the last time as she begins her long journey back to Cass. The tank car behind her is an auxiliary water car which was painted whi... (more)

Coaling a Shay in the 21st century. With no engine facilities in Elkins, a way to coal the locomotive had to be arranged. A pile of coal was dumped in a nearby parking lot and a backhoe pla... (more)

Besides the photo stop at the High Bridge, the only other runby performed on the northbound Cass to Elkins trip was held at this bridge over the Shavers Fork near Milepost 77, about five miles sou... (more)

The Western Maryland "Big Six" returns to Elkins Depot after an evening excursion to Kelley Mountain Tunnel. Every arrival during this event brought out the local townsfolk, many of whom had pro... (more)

After shadowing Big 6 from Cass, Western Maryland FP7 67 and BL2 82 run around the train on the lightly used and overgrown siding at Bowden. The diesels would be used to pull the train through Kel... (more)

After a hard day on the mountain, WM 6 shoves its caboose over the Tygart Valley River and back into the Elkins yard for the night.

The first steam engine along this line in decades definitely brought out both the young and old, as evidenced by this group in Bowden.

Shay 6 performs a photo run-by in the rain at Cheat Bridge as it makes its way back to Cass from Elkins. As an irrelevant side note, a raindrop hit me square in my left eye just after I took this ... (more)

Almost looking like a freight train from 60 years ago, Shay #6 and her excursion consist emerge from the woods and become visible for the first time to railfans gathered along Rt. 250 above Cheat ... (more)

It is not often that steam enthusiasts get to photograph these historic machines in truly remote wilderness settings. Having waited patiently on the shores of the Cheat River for over an hour, I... (more)

Shay 6 wakes up the neighborhood as it leads its train over the Tygart River early in the morning. The train is making its way down to the depot to board passengers for the epic return trip to Cas... (more)