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During my trip to Appalachia, I made a visit to the Cass Scenic Railroad in Cass, West Virginia. The Cass Scenic Railroad travels along a track route built in 1901 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company to access the area's extensive logging potential with spruce and hemlock trees. The railroad starts at the company town of Cass on the former C&O at 2,438 feet (743 m) in elevation. The train then climbs up the old West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company track with gradients reaching 9% up to Bald Knob at 4,843 feet (1,476 m). In 1942, Mower Lumber Company took over operations from the WVP&P until 1960 as the timber industry was in regional decline. During my visit, I took some pictures of the equipment on display along with filming some of the trains seen that day like the first Whittaker train and then filming bits and pieces of the 4 hour round trip up and down Bald Knob. Getting to see a Shay locomotive for the first time was really cool and riding the train was quite the experience with switchbacks, huge mountain vistas, and steep gradients with the Shay working hard almost non-stop. Riding a train powered by a Shay in territory it belongs in was an experience I won't forgot!

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