Cass Scenic Railroad: October 1997

Our annual family trip to Cass in October of 1997 found Shays 2, 4, and Western Maryland #6 doing the honors of operating the daily tourist trains to Whittaker and Bald Knob. The whistles are as follows: WM 6 has a Frisco flat top 3 chime long bell, Shay 4 has a Reading T1 single note hooter, and Shay 2 has a Southern Railway 5 chime. Special thanks to my father for allowing me to post these films to the internet. Please like and subscribe!! Visit us on Facebook at / scmrailfan

[@csignorelli1]

Superb footage! Interesting to see WM #6 as the pusher on the Bald Knob train. As I recall, it mainly served as the Whittaker engine from the mid-90's through the late 2000's, since the curve on the mainline at the "wye" was too tight for it to navigate. I'm assuming on this particular day, the Bald Knob train must have been turned on the wye and run the last few miles to the top in reverse. (Either that, or #6 was dropped and #2 proceeded solo from that point.)

[@thewvnetwork]

A late reply to your comment: your first assumption was correct. MSR&LHA actually rebuilt the wye in early 1997 and extended the tail track to accommodate an entire train for this exact purpose. Then, a few years later, CSRR reconfigured the mainline curve nullifying this effort. I wish someone had taken a photo of the train sitting at Bald Knob in reverse. I don't think I've ever seen one. I'm not sure why they didn't just leave Big Six on the Whittaker train until the curve was rebuilt, seems like an odd decision to make, but then there's always been plenty of head scratchers in Cass history when it comes to logic.

[@AirchimeLTDproductions174]

That Southern Railway Top-Lever 5-Chime on #2 is absolutely phenomenal.

[@EngineerDaylight]

OMG 6 Has its Prime whistle on it ❤. I hope that comes back someday

[@ryanseals_]

Any idea where the Frisco whistle ended up?

[@drpeerless1]

Not sure.

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[@wwrr98]

Sounds like Richard Carter on the 4

[@djbruno6730]

That's engineer artie Barkley in Shay 6

[@brianfalzon6739]

Sounds like 1522 and 1630

[@timdelp7776]

6 was Gary Cassell