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Morning mist, like a transparent sheath, increased from the green carpet-Cheat Mountain in the woods of West Virginia Monongahela National this weekend's Memorial Day, but the sun quickly, he intercepted during its slope , leaving a perfectly blue sky.

As the pocket of history, somehow frozen in time, Cass City, accessible via curves, mountain roads, hugging and a small bridge crossing the river, Greenbrier, sported his way to deposit iron, historic buildings, and the double tracks, all cradled by a Back Allegheny Mountain valley. The tracks themselves, stretching toward and disappear in a dense forest, have been the reason for the city and its railway and also the reason why neither disappeared into history.

Densely covered with virgin forests in the late 19th century, West Virginia ubiquitous sprouted oak, walnut, pine, walnut, chestnut and its low altitude and hemlock, spruce, maple and birch the more people, providing resources of timber rich, with its eight to nine feet in diameter of trees, houses, shops, churches, schools and demanded by the growing population of the state.

The logging that once depended on the rivers to sawmills power has become an important industry with the simultaneous development of the steam engine and the circular saw, a combination that has mapped over the operation, it must regardless of the power of the external water.

Trees were felled, traditionally cut into manageable sized logs, powered down the slopes using wooden pallets to streams, and transported to the mills on the rafts.

Due to the imprecision and the danger of skidding the manual method, the Lidgerwood Company of New York developed the first steam skidder, which was another farm industry advancement. First used in West Virginia in 1904, the device, featuring a mile of a 7/8-inch thick rope that stretches up to 2,600 feet, was mounted directly on the floor or on top of an autonomous car flat, seizing the paper and the transfer of the forest to listen in a safe, controlled manner. It significantly increased the ability of the method in horse is often replaced.

Water-born logging rafts, as equally imprecise because of the rock, rock, branch, and obstructions fast during the summer and ice in winter, were eventually replaced by steam-powered chargers and paths Iron logging.

big band saws, substituting at the earliest, a circular device, converted wooden timber more quickly, accurately and effectively, eliminating unnecessary waste, and have an average daily capacity of 125,000 board feet.

In the late 19th century, West Virginia has become one of the producers of the country's largest lumber, over a hundred railway timber transport crude to cut plants and processing before being consigned to the sale as a finished product. Crete in 1909, the industry has declined some 1.473 million board feet of timber per year.

One of the most important operations of logging were the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company. Founded in 1899 when John G. Luke has more than 67,000 acres of red spruce in West Virginia, it was a subsidiary of the Pulp and Paper Company located in West Virginia Covington, Virginia.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, providing for the need for cargo and timber transportation, hastened his own plans to expand its track in northern Pocahontas County, incorporating a subsidiary named the "Greenbrier Railway Company in 1897 and starting platform and construction of the track two years later. The line reached the area in December. Threshold of virgin forest, it was particularly well placed to carry the wood to the sawmill Covington and also connect with the coal and iron railways, which itself was later merged to form the railway Western Maryland.

Although it is a vital link, it has not penetrated e.