Ghosts on the Grade

The shattering sound of their exhausts echoing from the sheer rock bluffs and the sight of their billowing plumes of black smoke as the little Shays snaked along the switchbacks, their flanges squealing a protest at the sharpness of the curves on their iron trail must have etched deeply into the memory of those fortunate few who lived in the Westholme valley in that era.

Shays on the Switchbacks: A History of the Lenora, Mt. Sicker Railway
Elwood White and David Wilkie