Reporting from Cass, W. Va. — At the old mill town of Cass, nestled deep in a remote holler of West Virginia, coal smoke and history hang in the air. The smoke is from the geared steam locomotives ...

CASS, W.Va. — The Cass Scenic Railroad is a hard-working, up-the-mountain tourist rail line. It’s a slow 7 miles per hour on the steam-powered trains up Cheat Mountain to Whittaker Station and upward ...

If a unique family adventure sounds good this Independence Day weekend, consider visiting the Cass Scenic Railroad on Friday to ride the rails to Whittaker from historic downtown Cass on a three-hour ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Three days a week, Kenova resident Tim Hensley drives the Amtrak train from Huntington on its route that snakes through the New River Gorge and between the mountains over east ...

In Cass, W.Va., visitors can ride working steam trains to a replica of a logging camp. Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive in Cass, W.Va., noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth ...

A steam locomotive that has spent the last 37 years at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer will be going home to West Virginia this spring. The engine, known as the Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 ...

Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth leaking water tower. The train disappears up a rail incline into the forest. A whistle fit for a ...