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Thanks for your input

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Thank you for your interest. We’ll do Amtrak videos when our travel opportunities coincide .

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A place to be avoided for combat arms officers below the grade of Colonel. 🙄

Funny

Thanks for sharing

IIRC it was all sand. But, still, it must’ve been a Stell of a Horm!

Edited: thanks for the advice, but reviews of Newport News park campground are consistently negative as far as the cleanliness & condition of toilets & showers. Maybe OK for an overnight stay, but wouldn’t risk it for an extended stay like we had on this trip.

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It’s a great place with lots of history.

Thanks. It goes without saying there’s a lot of Civil War history in this part of Virginia!

Thank you!

Glad you tuned in!

Yeah, it’s a short double bed - RV manufactures get away with murder😐

Thanks for letting me know.

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It was!

Almost all of the sites are separated by woods several yards deep. My memory isn’t good enough to recall how deep, but the sites are very private - but not far enough apart that a Bozo with an open frame generator two or three sites away wouldn’t ruin the experience, so “don’t be that guy.” 😐

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Thank you for “hanging in!”

Thanks. It’s a great place owned by great folks.

Thanks for this. I get better the second time around! lol. Good Scouting!

@@historysablast Thanks man!

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Oh wow!

It’s a scene from 1990.

Not Tabitha. That was a VERY long time ago! Ca. 1997. A calico Maine Coon named Phoebe. Wow!

@@historysablast She made an impression on me!

Yes. This video helps.

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Good catch. It’s been 4 years since we published this, but IIRC we didn’t know that at the time. We’ve also stayed at Guilford Lake SP on the other side of OH & have learned that it, too, was a reservoir but for the O&E Canal.

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Oh, it is! There’s really something to the adage that it tastes different - let’s say richer - when it’s cooked in cast ‘ahrn’. Thanks, Frank.

Thank you for your interest and for this wonderful bit of history!

… and for this reason, perhaps alone, “should we all be truly greatful?”

In 2017, they were strip mining in Alvan! Does anybody know whether that is still going on? If so, what is the quality of the coal and is it being used by the railroad? I learned all this from a local resident up there?

Don’t know the answer to the first question. The EBT does not get its coal from the Broad Top Coal Field.

Yeah, according to one of the locals, there was 50 million tons of recoverable coal when the EBT closed, hopefully there was more than that.

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Pretty sure the first one was wooden. The replacement was, I believe, cast iron; picture in R&K _East Broad Top_ is the only image I recall seeing.

@@historysablast The reason I asked is that someone who is knowledgeable suggested that the TT that failed was a Sellers turntable which had a weak link holding the for arms. Were there three TTs including the present TT?

@@historysablast I think the current TT is steel but I may be wrong. Your history project is outstanding to say the least. I've been to the EBT once back in the 1980s and the shops were the most interesting. Thanks for your efforts!

@@cattaraugustonawanda4426 Pg. 63 in R&K _East Broad Top_ has the picture I mentioned; the caption says it was a steel, not an iron, turntable, that appears to be the Sellers design (round holes in the girders). That turntable replaced the one that collapsed, per the text in R&K. The incident was not recorded in the Directors minutes. And there WERE three, including the present one, purchased 2nd hand - originally on the NYC. FYI, originally there were three turntables on the EBT - one (possibly apocryphal) shown on a sketch map of Mt. Union yard in the 1873 county atlas; one at Rockhill (Orbisonia); and one at Robertsdale, which was documented in the Directors' minutes as being replaced with the wye when No. 7 (purchased 1881) proved too long for it.

@cattaraugustonawanda4426 You are correct; it is standard gauge width, former NYC, set up for compressed air power, but as far as is known it has always been an "Armstrong" turntable on the EBT.

Thanks for your kind words. I find this “work” therapeutic & recreational.

Oh, there are other folks covering that, too, and more current than we’ve been. Lot’s of drone shots, photos of the crew in action. Check out Fans of the East Broad Top on FB. We’ll get a video up whenever we can get over that way. Thanks for your interest.

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Thanks for your kind words!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I appreciate that!

Enjoy!

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They don’t advertise, for some reason they rely on word of mouth.

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History's a Blast is not the EBT news channel. If that's all you're interested in, you're certain to be disappointed by this channel. If it's the subject of this video you don't like, buh bye.

It’s very educational.