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Greenbriar Cheat & Elk No. 1 is a Shay - 3 truck built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1905 for the G. W. Huntley Lumber Company of Neola, WV.

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.

She is now a static display at the B&O Railroad Museum

Trivia

No. 1 was acquired by the museum from the Cass Scenic Railroad.

In 1980 after swapping Western Maryland Shay #6 which had been in the museum's collection since 1953.

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