Keywords: Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia, this mill building, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, was LCCN2015634277.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Now 2015 only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toiled among the machines of lumber and fine wood products production The mill's output was prodigious during its heyday It ran two 11-hour shifts six days per week cutting 125 000 board feet of lumber each shift more than 1 5 million feet of lumber per week The Cass mill's drying kilns used 11 miles of steam pipe to dry 360 000 board feet of lumber on each run The mill and the logging railroad as well as the old company town of Cass are now a West Virginia state park ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634277 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34200/34261a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34261 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34261 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |