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Making the Switch
East Broad Top Railroad No. 17 is a 2-8-2 Mikado built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March of 1918. It pulled the last two freight trains on the original East Broad Top Railroad in 1956. ..The East Broad Top railroad, which was built beginning in 1872, is the only surviving three-foot gauge common carrier railroad east of the Rocky Mountains. ..The railroad was completed in 1874 to service the iron furnaces and coal mines along a 33-mile corridor in Huntingdon County PA. The railroad was sold in 1956 to the Kovalchick family who reopened the train in the 1960s. The EBT foundation, Inc. acquired the railroad in 2020 and immediately began an extensive restoration effort with the goal of returning the railroad to regular service. .
Author: Jeffrey Stoner
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