Pics are due back from the developer's on Thursday or Friday, and will TRY to post a couple (I still haven't gotten most of last August's trip scanned...mebbe they'll all get put on one page)
One thing the tour guide said was that they USED to run the lineshaft briefly (via electric power or steam?) on the shop tours in the 60s, but that the building had deteriorated too much to do that anymore. While leveling the floor and fixing/repainting the siding ARE badly needed, I'm not sure that replacing the entire roof (and rafters) isn't perhaps more so. There were at several spots that had been shored up in one way or another. And as I mentioned before, the beam directly over the steam engine had cracked and failed resulting in the engine basically being entombed in a huge wooden cage to support the roof above.
The EBT sure could have used some of those millions that the RRers Memorial Museum (in Altoona) went through like water in recent years. Somebody I talked to (another foamer, not someone with the FEBT or EBT) said that in HIS opinion it might take $30 mil to get the place back into decent shape.....still, the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. So, if you can, buy a ticket or two, or a t-shirt (or a bit of old rail, or used spike, or a book, or whatever) from the giftshop...