Track List

1. Departure - Here is the nostalgic sounds that was once so common place in American countryside, but heard no more except as preserved on this recording.

2. Water Stop - Shay #4 stops to take on water before leginning the long climb to the top at Bald Knob.

3. Trackside - The multiple power strokes make the locomotive sound like it is going much faster than the 10-15 miles per hours it is actually traveling.  Listen carefully just after the locomotive passes and see if you can detect a slip.

4. Gum Field - The three truck Shay contiunues to push cars up grades which avarage 4-5%, at times reaching an astonishing 10%. Listen to some of the most beautiful whistling, and whistle echos you'll ever hear. "Ghost Whistles" (SRCD-2107) has even more.

5. Near the Top - As the train approaches the end of the four mile climb to the top, it passes high above our previous vantage point

6. Drifting Down Hill - On the return trip, steel wheels clicky-clack as the train travels the same standerd gauge rails over  which more than one billion board feet of lumber were shipped during the early part of the last century - testimony to the incalculable weath of this once virgin lumber stand.