EBT shop tour

I happened to be in central Pennsylvania last week and decided to pay a visit to the East Broad Top and take one of the public tours of the famous Rockhill Furnace shops that are now being offered. I had been to the EBT several times before, and I'd even wandered into the roundhouse before, but this was my first time seeing the machine shop and it was truly a revelation. (I had known about the EBT shops for years, going back at least to an article I remember reading in the old Locomotive & Railway Preservation magazine in the 1980s, but seeing it in person was something else.) Words like 'time capsule', 'monument', and 'holy ground' come to mind, but don't really do it justice.

Nor can my meager photography do it justice, but here are a few views:





That's engine 14 over the drop pit.


A clever inside joke.


A very poorly lit view of engine 14 on the right, and coach 8 on the left, with the big wheel lathe in the foreground.


-Philip Marshall



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/24/2021 11:56PM by philip.marshall.