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)

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)

After our meeting and transfer with Cass (which headed on towards Bald Knob), we did a reverse move back to the town location of Old Spruce where they would do the run around and take us back to t... (more)

The meeting at Old Spruce, 4 hours and 8 minutes after we departed the depot in Elkins, WV. The classic shays #4 & #11 brought up their almost fully loaded train from Cass, WV to meet up with our ... (more)

After spending the last hour and a half attacking the slopes of Bald Knob ahead of a Shay, the last thing one expects to find atop a mountain is a C&O F7A and a B&O GP7! The Cheat Mountain Salama... (more)

Steamscape: Cass Hill. The spring vegetation is definitely in full bloom as a Cass Work Train hammers uphill toward Old Spruce with Shay #4 on the point. This locomotive is a 70-ton Lima S... (more)

Hammering up Cass Hill. The hulking, 162-ton Western Maryland Shay #6 leads the charge as a Cass triple-header passes the scenic overlook just short of the switches at Old Spruce. This was... (more)

Cass Scenic 11, formerly Feather River Railway No. 3, steams upgrade at Old Spruce on the Cass Scenic's ex-Mower Lumber Company trackage. The track on the right leads to Spruce; the track on the ... (more)

Sweet Appalachia. Shay 5 steams through the hills that she's called home since her birth.

Western Maryland 6 fills the hills and hollers with coal smoke as it climbs up Cheat Mountain. Photographed on the Cass Scenic Railroad.

In their element. Amidst the deep woods and mountain mist, Shays 5 and 11 meet at Old Spruce on a wet spring morning in May.

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)

Veteran Cass Scenic Railroad engineer Danny Seldomridge backs Cass Scenic Railroad #11 down the mountain with a sold out train.

Steam meet's speeder's! Photo taken during a Motorcar excursion by Appalachian Rail Excursion's.

Heisler number 6 rolls through Old Spruce at top speed since her tender is almost dry. The passenger train has cleared the main onto the Spruce Line so that the log train can pass and head on up ... (more)