The WV Presents "GOLDEN CASS" Cass Scenic Railroad 50th Anniversary Weekend Celebration Runbys
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- SPECIAL PRESENTATION!
Exactly 50 years after the first tourist train departed Cass depot, Shay #4 is back in action, doing the same thing it has done many days in the 50 years hence. The locomotive is adorned in a special scheme, representing the lettering arrangement used on the very first revenue run in May 1961, when it was tentatively called the "Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat & Bald Knob Scenic Railroad".
The video features two trips during this special weekend, both featuring Shay #4 and #5 in a double header, first to Whittaker Station on Saturday, and the Bald Knob on Sunday. Runby locations include: Cass Depot, Gum Field, Whittaker Station, S-curve, Limestone Cut, Gum Road Crossing, Back Mountain Crossing, Bald Knob approach, DP Switch crossing, and Emergency Water Tank.
Outstanding! Fabulous! this is a very good thing!
My Uncle was a Locomotive Engineer many years ago. Great to see this train still running. I love this train.
The sepia tone intro was pretty cool
It's neat to see that Little number 4 still uses a steam jam.
Very awesome! Can't beat that quality.
Great video, Thanks!
Awesome!
I hope there will be a video made avaiable. I was there amazing
Did they do the double head to Bald Knob because of the whole 50th anniversary thing?
I want a Shay :P
does the cass railroad have access to the rest of the standard gauge world?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you mean do they have a connection to another railroad, the answer is yes. They connect to the West Virginia Central at Spruce, and the WVC connects to Appalachian and Ohio and eventually CSX via Tygart Junction, which is nearly 90 rail miles away. The Spruce connector was reconstructed in 1992 (an existing corridor adjacent to the current one was abandoned in 1960 at the end of rail logging), and is a 1.4 mile stretch connecting CSRR's Bald Knob mainline to WVC. Originally, the Cass logging operation built a majority of the WVC, having owned 120 miles of track at the height of its existence. The former town of Spruce was also built for and originally owned by the Cass mill operation.
does it really take 2 shays to pull only 5 cars, they were not big locos but they had a very large amount of torque with the gear reduction and would pull short trains that would be very heavy full of logs or coal, surely a few cars full of people is no challange for a shay or geared loco, even if the grade is really steep which I know for the record one of the short line tourist railroads that uses shays has an 11 percent grade, but still this things do have some trudging power with the way they were geared, and the sets of powered wheels spread out like in a 4 wheel drive to distribute power evenly and have the more independant wheels that can turn sharper then a rod loco and could take the uneven often temporary wood tracks they would use in logging in the old days.
manga12--I think the "short line tourist railroad that uses shays [that] has an 11 percent grade" IS Cass...in fact, part of the 11 percent grade in question is shown towards the end of this video. As far as the "need" for 2 shays, this particular weekend was the 50th Anniversary, and as a gimmick they decided to run both original Cass/Mower Lumber Co. locomotives as a doubleheader, regardless of load. So, in this case, its all for show as either one of these engines could have handled the five car train easily by itself. However, Cass does doublehead by necessity on occasion because, for safety reasons, anything over five cars requires a second locomotive, with the exception of Shay #6, which is used to pushing 7 cars without a helper. In most cases, the only time it is necessary to doublehead is during busy weekends in October when 9 cars are used on the Bald Knob train, or on the rare summer weekend when a large tour group rides the railroad.
The WV Network Really, I figured the loads of coal would be way heavier then any old group of passenger cars, yes I think cass is the 11 percent grade just did not want to look at the time for necessity of speed replying, I mean I remember reading about the test of a shay and a willamette type, where they carried a test of cars empty the shay did 27 and the willamete pulled 29 while using 40 % less fuel
So at it were I would have thought it be no problem for it to pull upward 10 cars of the light passenger wagon type like they have here so that was why my question, I know 11 is a tall grade as its 1% rise for every 10 foot of track or every mile but still its steep even so the geared locos have small drivers that are spread out over the whole body of the loco and tender, and high torque gear reduction.