On February 7th 2013 this was posted on the EBT Facebook site, by the page itself:
"I've been told it's possible the train could run late in the summer, again possible nothing is written in stone but it's something to keep our hopes up."
Who knows? It may happen (and I really hope it does), or it may not.
These are the opinions of a twenty Four year old model railroader/narrow gauge/standard gauge steam fan.