The Train Graveyard & Abandoned Sawmill at the Cass Scenic Railroad

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@KathysTube 9 ай бұрын

That's a lot of train stuff! Interesting to see this important piece of American history... thanks Chet 👍💐

@acdcnut2011 9 ай бұрын

That's why I've been wanting to check it out for so long lol. This place is amazing! Thanks Kathy.

@TracksAndTrails5614 7 ай бұрын

I’m glad we think the same way about getting into things 😂 if it’s open there’s a way in 😂

@The_Timberwolve4731 6 ай бұрын

They are restoring 604 back to her old Buffalo Creek and Gully #4 they are restoring it to run from Cass to Durbin and its getting a complete overhaul that includes a new boiler thats being built a few miles down the road in WV and some of those cars are going to be restored to run with her. Some of the locomotives and rolling stock to go get used for the duribin and greenbrier line

@gravelydon7072 5 ай бұрын

Buffalo Creek & Gauley #4 was last run in 2001. It was sold to Cass's current operator, D&GV RR. And yes, the intention is to run it from Cass to Durbin. Which would be far better than using a Shay for that trip when all the track is in better condition.

@The_Timberwolve4731 5 ай бұрын

@@gravelydon7072 also a faster and smoother run

@meteors4192 2 ай бұрын

Back in the 70s and 80s all those trains were not there it was just the Shys My grandparents lived in Cass And I spent many of times in Cass going up and down the mountains on those beautiful trains.

@BCGsummer1964 6 ай бұрын

The log crane on the flat car at 41:43 is also from the Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. It is an American loader. It was originally steam powered by was converted to diesel somewhere along the way. Notice the dual-gauge flanged wheels. These allowed the self-powered crane to traverse the length of a string of flat cars on sections of track which the crane moved ahead and then ran on, spanning the gap between the log flats.

@aaronferrell4721 9 ай бұрын

When you say "that's just me being weird" around 14:55, i guess I'm weird too cuz I think it's neat too! lols

@acdcnut2011 9 ай бұрын

I guess it wasn't just me then lol.

@gravelydon7072 5 ай бұрын

The item sitting on the flatcar OE is a wheel lathe. If you look you can see the two tool posts that hold the cutting tools. You want to cut both wheels to the same size at the same time. On a Shay, you want to cut all wheels to close to the same size so that all wheels share the load equally. Flatcar 23 has a frame and boiler of a 2-8-0 sitting on it. The cars which haul liquids are called tank cars. Originally they were simply flatcars with wooden tanks on them. When the FEC railway was built to Key West, they used wooden tanks on flats to haul water down there. The NYC/PC marked car is a hopper car. They were used for hauling rock, gravel, or coal. 28:00 The car with the doors on the ends is a work train kitchen car. Something you would see with a wreck train or on a train for a track gang. The Industrial Brownhoist wreck crane is ex-US Army. The station is a replacement for the one that burned in 1975.

@paulmartens4442 6 ай бұрын

They are restoring that engine for use with the Greenbrier Express ride. It needed a new boiler. That's a bobber caboose

@paulmartens4442 6 ай бұрын

That tall building was the boiler house that powered the entire sawmill by use of belts

@Zach-q1q 8 ай бұрын

That #3 was just painted for show. It's beyond repair. Used to sit by the depot for display.

@danielgrimm4441 5 ай бұрын

I remember seeing shay 3 run in 1992 I was 6 years old but still remember it.

@nicholasmedovich8691 2 ай бұрын

That was a different shay 3. That was mt Emily shay 1. Only oil burner to operate at cass at the time

@jeffmurdock8321 Ай бұрын

@@nicholasmedovich8691 I got in a small argument with a guide over #3. He was telling us that Cass ran both wood and coal over the years. I then said that they had run all three, oil burners too, but he insisted that Cass never ran oil burners. Back in the 1970's I got a cinder in my eye and was afraid of the engines after, but I found out that #3 was oil and couldn't hurt my eyes, so I liked riding that one as a kid. LOL The guide was pretty young so he didn't know, he was just reading a script. Been going there better than 50 years now.

@melmen2379 8 ай бұрын

The shay 3 that's on the deadline REALLY resembles a Shay 3 that cass used to have during the 80s and early 90s. It left cass in 1993 I believe is the year was

@gregorysenge 9 ай бұрын

They’re restoring 604, when I was there in 2016 they were repairing the boiler on the running gear in the video.

@nicholasmedovich8691 4 ай бұрын

Boiler is now being replaced

@eltonjohnfan100 7 ай бұрын

I wonder where the whistle went on that shay 3..

@neilwilliams5173 5 ай бұрын

Thought they got that shay #3 because the boiler was in real good shape.it used to sit on the siding by the depot not long ago.Its a shame its sits on that long dead line looking pretty forlorn.

@paulmartens4442 6 ай бұрын

That was not a Shay engine boiler on top of the flat car. The one beside it is a tank car. The Shay #3 that you crawled into is not one of the five running at Cass. They also have a Climax and Heisler locomotive. That final one is called a crane car.

@Zach-q1q 8 ай бұрын

Depot burned twice. This one built in 1970s.

@Zach-q1q 8 ай бұрын

I think the first mill was built in the 1900s, and this mill was built in the 1920s

@cassscenic4 9 ай бұрын

Good video. Did you get permission to hop on and off those pieces of equipment?

@The_Timberwolve4731 6 ай бұрын

Im gona say no

@jeffmurdock8321 Ай бұрын

it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. But yes, it's all restricted back there. Some stuff like the mill has asbestos inside I was told. It's not good to poke around where you don't know the dangers. Them old boilers were wrapped in asbestos jackets and had asbestos gaskets and seals.