Greenbrier Cheat & Elk No. 1 is a three-truck Shay locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1905 for the G. W. Huntley Lumber Company of Neola, WV. where it worked hauling log trains.
The locomotive was sold that year to the Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Co. of Thornwood, WV, and owned successively by the North Fork Lumber Co. of Nottingham, WV, and then the Greenbrier Cheat & Elk River Railroad at Cass, WV.
GC&E No. 1 eventually ended its career hauling tourists over the mountain ranges of West Virginia and is now seen on static display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.
Trivia[]
- No. 1 was acquired by the museum from the Cass Scenic Railroad in 1980, after swapping places with Western Maryland Shay No. 6 which had been in the museum's collection since 1953.