Cass Night Watch. A lone Shay locomotive stands by for late light switching duty on the platform at the old C&O Depot in Cass, WV. Mower Shay #4 is the duty locomotive this evening, and th... (more)

Cass Depot, ca 1948. With the day's operations shut down several hours ago and the locomotive fires banked, a couple of Mower Lumber Co. night hostlers chat on the empty platform of the old... (more)

Mower Lumber Co., Whittaker Camp. Mower Lumber Company employees return to their bunkhouse upon the completion of their shift, loading fresh timber onto log flats for transport down to the ... (more)

Heading out to Spruce. Mower Lumber Company Shay #4 shoves a string of empty flats and log bunks up the shallow grade at Old Spruce, with a lone "woodhick" riding shotgun and keep... (more)

Freight to Cheat Bridge. Spring has sprung in the hills of Southeastern West Virginia and the leaf buds are popping everywhere as the former Meadow River Heisler #6.....now Cass Scenic Rail... (more)

Crossing the Shaver's Fork. Greenbrier & Elk River Shay #5....better known today as Cass Shay #5....crosses the Shaver's Fork of the Cheat River for the upteeth time on her northbound trek ... (more)

Spruce to Cheat Bridge. Lettered for the Greenbrier & Elk River Railroad, the Cass Scenic Railroad's oldest Shay Locomotive hauls a couple of well-used gondolas across the Shaver's Fork of ... (more)

Hitchin' a ride. A lone Mower Lumber Company "woodhick" hitches a ride up Cass Hill on a consist of empty log bunks headed for the logging camp at Spruce, just over a mile ahead. ... (more)

Crossing Leatherbark Run. The former Moore-Keppel Climax #6, now Cass Scenic Railroad #9, hauls her log train across the little bridge on Leatherbark Run, heading up the hill toward Whittak... (more)

Only one thing missing. When they originally set up this November, 2019 photo charter, the folks from Trains Magazine had been hoping that the line from Cass to Durbin would be open, becaus... (more)

Just because they can. Cass Scenic Railroad is known for periodically rolling out multiple locomotives and putting on double-headers, triple-headers and Shay races. It has become a traditi... (more)

Getting underway. The former Moore-Keppel Co. Climax #6, now Cass Climax #9 oozes steam from just about everywhere as she begins to move from the Cass Yard to the depot, to pick up her trai... (more)

Just a hint of fall color remaining. Although most of the autumn leaves had been ripped from the trees by a wind-storm just 24 hrs earlier, a few sheltered trees still retained a bit of fal... (more)

Ellamore after dark. Railroad crew members take a break as they await orders for their next move at the depot in Ellamore, WV on the Middlefork Railroad. OK, you're really looking at the C... (more)

Shifting hoppers. The newly restored Climax #9 is seen here shifting some hoppers within the Cass Yard, as she works to make up her photo freight for the day. The lettering on the new Cli... (more)