People fight to restore the East Broad Top R

[@scottfw7169]

And here 5 years later, on February 14, 2020, some grand news! There is hope. There is a future!

[@BalticFilms144]

Every steam railroad and railroads in general is worth preserving. The only narrow guage line left with steam operations like the EBT would be the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

[@robertmohler9131]

Yeah and now both of the Mt. Union switchers have left the property. Does the EBT Foundation have the money and willpower to bring any of them back?

[@nicholasmedovich8691]

Update: 16 is nearing completion of her 1472. Mostly repairs and partial replacements and new cistern. 14 will likely need new driving wheel centers along with new tubes and other miscellaneous items. Unknown what the condition of her tender cistern is. 15 most likely needs boiler inspection (should be sound becuase her tube sheets and firebox materials were replaced repaired) new tubes and mostly major running gear rebuilding and replacements. 18 unknown, 17 needs new running gear rebuilding and 12 most likely will be the most expensive project (new tube sheets, firebox, mud ring, smokebox, petticoat pipe, tender cistern etc aka the works

[@ItsTrain]

I remember when I was younger, I always wanted to go to the EBT, but now I can't. I hope they reopen this American Railroad attraction soon

[@Strasburg_Railfaner611]

July 28th 2022 it’s back in operation and locomotive 16 is almost done with its restoration

[@countrypaul]

As of 2020, a new infusion of money and effort is going into the EBT. Tourist trains are running again at Orbisonias/Rockhill Furnace and the line is being reopened south of there. There is also new trackage available to jusr speeders for now south of Robertsdale, where the station is a museum.

[@williambryant5946]

If I was to ever hit the lottery of one of the bigger jackpots, I think I'd have to donate the enough money to get this place running again including all 6 locomotives.

[@nicholasmedovich8691]

1:03 sign that ebt isn’t dead yet.

[@mattsmocs3281]

If they get a temporary narrow gauge diesel it can haul freight to get money and the engines can probably be sent to a shop like the Steamtown NHS which does have space to work on another engine even with 2 diesels and a steam engine.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Or Strasburg. They also have a marvelous facility.

[@jerseycentral833]

If Pennsylvania can find skyscrapers, they could definetly restore this old railroad. This is history on the line here!

[@Lil_Pennsy]

I would love to go there everyday n help

[@TheHolyMongolEmpire]

Still abandoned today :(

[@nicholasmedovich8691]

Not anymore

[@TheHolyMongolEmpire]

@@nicholasmedovich8691 did they open it again?!?!?

[@countrypaul]

@@TheHolyMongolEmpire - yes! There is new money and new enthusiasm aboard. They are running on the former open section north of Orbisonia and are opening the track to the south as well. Also, they are clearing some track south of Robertsdale, the ultimate goal being connecting the the two parts. I don't know how much further north they'll go from Colgate Grove. And of course the Trolley Museum is operating on the Shade Gap branch.

[@sparky107107]

i can get over 100 people there in 2021, May,, but where would all of the people stay , need hotels

[@billyhallman2229]

this was my frist out of town train ride i was only 5 years old the only train rides before i went to east broad top was arcade and attica railroad and the upside down bridge ride

[@jamesshanks2614]

It ran freight service until 1956 when their main customer for coal the Pennsylvania railroad dieselized.

[@roterakaten636]

Seriously they just put down there tools and left frozen!! Fuck all you need is people at that point if you have the Mills and lathes to do the work which it sounds like they do. There has to be a railroad person with at least 1 million dollars to run that line. But seriously every state should have a steam rail that just travels around the whole State and shows off the cool stuff they have like the sleepy little towns frozen in time and all that. It would be a giant tourism capture. And most people hate Diesel electric engines they don't have any personality to them and there all quiet an just ugly. A steam engine is something that has a personality and it's large and beautiful and made well and just a piece of working art!! They should be preserved and put back to work in some way. And besides we technically don't have to burn fuel in them now days just use good insulation and electrical heating elements. Bam coupled with the generator the train has on its water and fuel car depending on the year it's made you could just have a self powered boiler that needs water to run and can tow 100 tons on no combustion.......

[@the3amigos931]

Joe won't say how much? He want's $70,000,000

[@garylavinus6270]

Steve Painter I heard more like 8 to 10 million. There is a lot of timber land for sale as well that would drive the number up.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Still asleep in 2019.