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 ...

As late as the 1920s there were still many huge, old growth trees in the area east of Redmond and logging was dominated by the Siler Logging Company. Felled trees were taken north by means of a ...

OTSEGO COUNTY — Although the logging industry flourished in Northern Michigan in the late 1800s, by 1917 it was all but over leaving behind logging villages that started dying as quickly as they had ...