Meadow River Lumber Company No. 7

Meadow River Lumber Company No. 7 was built in 1920 for the Raine Lumber Co. and came to their Meadow River operation in 1944. At some point its as-built wood cab was replaced by the “racy” home-built steel cab seen here.
No. 7 was sold to the state of West Virginia and traveled to Cass under its own power in 1964.
At the Cass Scenic Railroad, it was a fan favorite, and considered the “main” locomotive, generally being assigned to the Bald Knob run.
After the 1970 operating season, No.7 was well along on a thorough overhaul when pitting was discovered in the bottom of the boiler shell’s taper course. Replacements were manufactured by two different vendors during 1973-75, but neither passed inspection.
The locomotive has sat on the Cass dead line ever since, small parts either lost in the shop fire of 1972 or used on other locomotives.
==Trivia==
*To the dismay of many, its Radley & Hunter smokestack was replaced with a standard Cass diamond stack prior to the 1970 season.
*By that time, the CSRR had acquired Shays 2 and 3, and Park management lost interest in the now surplus No. 7.
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