090: East Broad Top Being Restored to Operation
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- The East Broad Top, a historic narrow gauge railroad in central Pennsylvania, has been purchased by a new nonprofit organization. Brad Esposito, General Manager for the railroad, discusses the future of the EBT and what it will take to restore it to operation.
Visit the new website and learn more about the Friends of the East Broad Top.
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This is a Christmas miracle! Probably the best railroad-related news this year
Well done Nick. From Nicholas Medovich from Roanoke chapter NRHS at 9th street
Wow!!!! Maybe we'll eventually see the tunnels go into operation again!!! One has a partial collapse, but it also had a partial collapse in 1919 and got fixed with concrete portals which helped it for a while, so it can be fixed again and hopefully will get fixed once this group expands its operations!!!! YEA!!!!!!!
Yes ! They need to go from Union to Robertsdale. Local counties should contribute meaningfully and see great returns on their investments from railfans worldwide.
@@happyhome41 Mt union wont happen. Although the closet is Adams, but the aughwick trestle is a total disaster. Total replacement heck it cant even hold # 12 or the m7 cause the piling will collapse
@@nicholasmedovich6729 We can dream, yes ? And if enough folks get together, and working incrementally -- who knows ? EBT is such a treasure !
Awesome! "first, to preserving and operating the East Broad Top as a steam railroad; second, to educating visitors about the role of railroads in local and national history; and, third, to promoting local and regional tourism and economic growth."
Enjoy your RUclips videos.As a steam fan and model railroader I hope to visit EBT soon.
1:53-2:03 classic bell 🔔
Coming back EBT great to see them steaming back
Awesome !🚂🚃
Awesome podcast nick, so glad I get to be a part of this quite bluntly massive undertaking, you said you put linseed oil on the boxcar, i helped put the floor in, and now I get to help rebuild locomotives
hope they extend the tracks & make the line longer too!
Well I'm glad that the East Broad top railroad is coming back.
As much as I really want to see one of the steamers fired up I think I'd be a better idea if they got one or two of their diesels going again for the sake of making track work easier and having a way to get tourist trains started in someway shape and or form.
I heard there might still be quite a lot of coal on the mountain on the EBT side, one resident I talked to said there's quite a bit of coal left, another resident thinks the field is almost gone. We need to do a geological study of the broad top coalfield, especially on the EBT portion of the field.
Nick I'm fired up half the EBT coming back
Get them to burn authentic broad top coal! There is a stripping operation on the mountain according to a resident
I miss the E.B.T., but get the 1522 out again, also now as, FRANK, also knows as NICK OZOARK.
Fun fact not only the EBT is narrow gauge it's also standard gauge as well but only a small part it
Dual gauge
About bloody time someone buys the E.B.T Lol
So what's the backstory to horseshoe tender tank tender on mikados?
This is a restorization project of the century!
It's going to be awfully hard restoring the out of service since 1956 portions. Nature has basically reclaimed the row. Bridges are in bad shape. Tunnels partially collapsed. Road crossings rails paved over and no signals. Trees and other vegetation grew in tracks. And they didn't get the rails north of the Aughwick stone bridge toward Mt. Union as part of the purchase.
Once they get going and get media coverage it will be easyer
@@the_retag I would say restore to the Robertsdale wye someday. That way, both tunnels would be used.
@@robkrasinski6217 as.much as possible but i wonder if any engines that formerly ran the ebt still exist and are ever coming back cause the ones they have got now are rather large (not that i dislike them)
retag the engines they have are all original. They ran #15 the most because it was a smaller loco than #17 and #18 to help with the track. I would like to see #18 run again.
@Kyle Dean Going through BOTH tunnels and turning on the Robertsdale wye is a good stopping point. I ran into a guy on one of these videos who said there was likely a lot more coal in the mountain than was mined, particularly on the EBT side, but youtube appears to have taken down the conversation.
I’m wondering how the ongoing Covid-19 situation is affecting these guys.
Hey, I once had a conversation with somebody ion youtube who lives in the Broad Top area who said there was likely a lot more coal in the Broad Top area than was ever mined. However RUclips appears to have removed the conversation. If he/she monitors this video would they reply to me and I will give them my private email.
Thanks,
Bob Mohler
If you can make a donation please do. My wife and me had a ride in 1979 . she is gone now. I made a donation of 20000 in her memory
No Video, just a continuous still shot of #17, Sorry that sucks.. Thumbs down and no Sub.
YAK, YAK, YAK. NO VIDEO HERE.
That's because it's a podcast.