At the Cass Scenic Railroad, Shay 5 shoves hard on its train through a place colloquially named 'Sugar Grove', just below Whittaker Station.
From this area to the Whittaker Station sign the grade is 11%.
NO Cables, NO Cogs, just brute power from a Shay locomotive.
For me, part of what makes the Cass Scenic Railroad special, is the motive power really works and works hard, just like they were designed.
No 'trailer queens' or stuffed and mounted static museum pieces here...just coal smoke, soot and cinders
