Reporting from Cass, W. Va. — At the old mill town of Cass, nestled deep in a remote holler of West Virginia, coal smoke and history hang in the air. The smoke is from the geared steam locomotives ...

CASS, West Virginia ― The Cass Scenic Railroad is a hard-working, up-the-mountain tourist rail line. It’s a slow 7 miles per hour on the steam-powered trains up Cheat Mountain to Whittaker Station and ...

Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth leaking water tower. The train disappears up a rail incline into the forest. A whistle fit for a ...

The logging railroad reached its heyday in the late 19th century and early 20th century when large lumbering operations clear-cut forests to produce lumber, paper and other wood products for a fast ...