There's More Online Watch train videos and read more about train excursions at BlueRidgeCountry.com/Trains The Cheat Mountain Salamander stops at Cheat Bridge. tors Center of the Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau. "You can get on that train ... and that engine is only five years younger than this town-and still on the same track that it was built for." Trains hauled the first logs out of Cass in 1901. Business boomed. And generations of families thrived West Virginia's Cheat Mountain Salamander travels through a tunnel in West Virginia (above) and to the remote high country spruce forests of Cheat Mountain (below). More March/April 2016 47http://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com/Trains