Cass Scenic Railroad - Shay #6

http://www.cassrailroad.com/images/num_6a.jpg

Y'all need to check this out! It's 162 tons of Shay Locomotive. It warms my soul to look at it.

I'll bet its nicknames was TANK!!! Sucker is giant!

Lima #3156 was the second largest Shay built, at 256,000 lbs. While at Cass, WV in 1933 it was comverted to a 4 truck Shay at 197 TONS! It was scrapped at Cass in 1956 as Mower Lumber #12. http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/lim ... n-3156.htm

Thax for the pics they're awesome! If you don't know by now I'm Bobby Lee Merritt.

Hello Bobby. I like big things. I sure am hot for Shays, too. I just love all their moving parts.

6 is the largest surving shay but she wasnt the largest built KCS 900 was the biggest it was a C160 Class


Scott

That's true. #6 is also the largest 3 truck Shay ever built.

Any of you been to cass and rode behind her? Great thing about living here in WV i'm only about 3 hours away. I'v rode in the cab of WM 6, 2,11,5 Havnt rode on the Heisler been in the cab a few times and soon as 4 makes it way out of the shop. This year all of the normal running shays will be running 2-11 plus the heisler.


Scott

An other nice thing about living in W Va is working on the engines as a member of the http://www.msrlha.org/