First trip on a narrow gauge line - EBT in 1960
| January 08, 2020 09:24AM |
I almost died in the Spring of 1960 but the doctors at Johns Hopkins kept me ticking. The first trip the family took after I recovered was to the newly re-opened East Broad Top Railroad.
My father had asked me where I wanted to go on vacation and I replied "ride trains". I'm not sure why he chose the EBT and I didn't know I would get a cab ride in #15 but it started my life-long interest in narrow gauge steam railroads. I'm in the cab with my father, Charles and my brother Steve is on the running board. Dad took many slides that day, this is my favorite ….
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 11:59AM by Stewart Rhine.
My father had asked me where I wanted to go on vacation and I replied "ride trains". I'm not sure why he chose the EBT and I didn't know I would get a cab ride in #15 but it started my life-long interest in narrow gauge steam railroads. I'm in the cab with my father, Charles and my brother Steve is on the running board. Dad took many slides that day, this is my favorite ….
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 11:59AM by Stewart Rhine.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.