Inspection Point
Within the East Broad Top Roundhouse, an inspection by lamplight. The eight-stall Roundhouse was constructed in 1882 to replace the original four-stall wooden engine house built in 1874...The East Broad Top railroad, 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 closed was sold in 1956 to the Kovalchick family who reopened the train in the 1960s and ran passenger excursions through 2011. ..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. .