Last Wednesday we finished the final leg of the trail -- parking up at Cass and riding down to milepost 69.5 then back to Cass.
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| A couple of miles before our turnaround point is the restored Clover Lick depot. |
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| Both Cass (above) and Marlinton have their sewage treatment aeration ponds along the trail. No smell -- just the hum of the aerators. |
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| Cass' reason for existence (and, in fact, the whole Greenbrier Railroad) was to access timber supplies for the paper mill in Covington, Virginia. The logging railroad is now a steam-driven tourist train. |
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| Coal-fired steam engines give an idea of how dirty this technology was. Diesel locomotives really cleaned up transportation. |
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| A wider view of the smoke plume. Imagine a dozen or more trains each day along this track! |
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