Return to service: After a long 8 year restoration Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #4 returns as the Bald Knob Helper. This day also marked the first time that Shay #4 and #11 have ran ogether since #11... (more)
Conductor Bob Starke uses hand signals to direct the engineer of Shay 11 in coupling to a flat car. Two other crewmen keep an eye on the knuckles to make sure they're alligned properly.
A view of the backhead of Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #2.
Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #2 departs Cass for Whittaker.
In a scene that repeated thousands of times over the years Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #2 passes the former Mower Lumber Co. mill.
Taking a walk away from the photo line, I decided to grab a broadside of Shay 11 dropping down the 6% grade between the switchbacks.
The Shavers Fork of the Cheat River is the constant companion of this portion of the West Virginia Central.
A log train thunders by the Cass shops and past the deadline which includes a little GE 45 ton center cab, an old lathe on a flatcar, and a few derelict Shays.
Although the boiler house and drying kilns are still standing, this collection of foundation footings, pulleys, drive shafts, flywheels, and other metal junk are all that remains of the once huge ... (more)
Two former South Branch Valley ALCOs, one still in B&O paint, sit in the weeds near Cass without a single intact pane of glass to their name.
Engineer Brad Hoover seems to be posing but the grin is no doubt because he’s chuckling and thinking, “hmmm, look at all the foamers.”
She'll be comin around the mountain when she somes....
A log train trundles down the old Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk mainline.
Here’s a look inside the smokebox at the superheater header of an abandoned 1943 consolidation on the Cass dead line. It seems that a few plants decided to call this rather inhospitable env... (more)