May 4th, 2013 by WCBC Radio
Fifty years to the day after the first tourist train made its way up Cheat Mountain, the Cass Scenic Railroad will make a special anniversary run. On June 15, the train will haul 240 passengers to Whittaker Station. Cass was a logging town that relied on the timber industry and mill operations to survive. But by 1960, that industry was tapped out.