This is what your Shay is supposed to look like. [(-D]
Now look at your shay…now back to mine…this is the shay your shay should be. [:D]
Seriously, though - nice photos. Where were they taken?
Hi
The pictures were taken in Cass, West Virgina US. The Cass rail road museum Has five Shays and one Heisler. #6 is, I think the largest Shay ever built. The wife and I took an eleven mile ride on #6 up a mountain that tops out at just under 5000 feet above sea level. There are two switch backs were the train runs past a turnout and then backs past another turnout then pulls forward on a higher grade. The engine is always on the down hill side of the cars so there is no possibility of a coupler failure causing a catastrophe. The grades or 5% up to 9% Probably more than you wanted to know but we found the trip very interesting.
Have a good day [(-D]
Lee
Thanks for laugh Danny, good stuff! [Y][:D]
these are awesome beasts… i wish i would have had the time to take the trip this year
WM #6 was Lima’s last Shay, and the largest currently in existence - but not the largest ever built. That honor goes to a 4-trucker that operated on the present-day Cass line in the 1920s.
Just as an exercise in imagineering, I once designed a six-truck Shay-er-Garratt, with a five cylinder engine and a boiler similar to that of an N&W Z class. Like the Quadruplex, it’s probably a good thing that nothing like it was ever built. Even the four truck Shay was probably reaching a little past the practical.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with, maybe, a 2-truck Yahs)