The steel tire from Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #11 is removed from its wheel. The tire is heated, expanding the tire and then it is beat off of the wheel with a sledge hammer.

The steel tire from Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #11 is removed from its wheel. The tire is heated, expanding the tire and then it is beat off of the wheel with a sledge hammer.

A relic on the old C&O Greenbrier Sub just north of Cass. The line was washed out in 1985.

Typical morning at Cass.

Shays #4, 5, and Western Maryland #6 "Big Six" simmer in the shop area. The security lights leave an eerie color cast in the steam trails above the 5 and 6!

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #11 travels down the Cass main during a light snowfall.

The sun broke through the clouds for literally a minute, giving me just enough time to capture this impressive shot of Western Maryland Shay 6 powering down the Cass main.

Fall peak in Cass! The 3pm train has just pulled into the station at Cass during an incredible season of fall color.

Cass Shay #11 crosses Leatherbark Creek with the 3pm trip to Whittaker Station on a beautiful fall day.

The Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay #6 sits near MP 9 while a tree is removed from the tracks after having been toppled from the heavy wet snowfall.

The Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay #5 and #6 take on water at Oats Run on a cold and wet day on Cheat Mountain.

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #5 takes on water at Oats Run after helping the Bald Knob train up the mountain earlier in the day as the snow begins to fall.

The Cass Scenic Railroad's Western Maryland Shay 6 takes on water at Oats Run during an early October snowfall which dropped 9" in the highest elevations of West Virginia.

Fireman Chris Lambert throws another shovel of coal into the firebox of Western Maryland Shay 6 as we head up the mountain to Bald Knob on a rainy August afternoon.