The big 6 pointing down hill into town, with relatively small #11 coupled up. She is pointed in this orientation for the big race at Spruce so to be heading the same way as the diesel. I think the race was rigged for the Shay to win by a coupler length. Interestingly, this is the direction that West Virginia Pulp and Paper ran all their Shays, nose down hill into Cass.

Photo by Rick Brigger