Reconstructed EBT Coal Tipple Shed
| September 30, 2022 06:22AM |
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The EBT Friends group is reconstructing the one-time EBT Coal Tipple Shed
From a Trains magazine story by Dan Cupper:
A new shed takes shape at the East Broad Top coal tipple in Rockhill Furnace, Pa., shown in a view looking north on the main line toward the yard and shops on Sept. 23, 2022. Dan Cupper
The reconstructed Tipple Shed is part of a larger project to provide fire protection for the EBT shops complex. More information on the fire protection project is in this earlier Facebook post:
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(I'm not a member of Facebook either, but that page is available to non-members)
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- Graham
From a Trains magazine story by Dan Cupper:
A new shed takes shape at the East Broad Top coal tipple in Rockhill Furnace, Pa., shown in a view looking north on the main line toward the yard and shops on Sept. 23, 2022. Dan Cupper
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Trains: EBT restoration
The tipple once supplied engines with Broad Top semi-bituminous coal that had been mined along the railroad, then dumped from EBT hoppers shoved up a ramp track leading off the main line. A covered shed protected the area where the hoppers were spotted at the end-of-track unloading pit. After the railroad closed in 1956, that siding fell into disuse and wasn’t reactivated when the railroad began tourist service in 1960.
The tipple continued to function as before, but was fed by trucks. At some point, the shed fell into advanced disrepair and disappeared.
A grant from the Friends purchased the lumber for the shed’s reconstruction — studs, joists, and beams — to set up the framing. Siding and roofing, much of it typically sheet-metal material in common-carrier days, has been ordered and is expected to be installed to complete the work soon, Van Scyoc said
The reconstructed Tipple Shed is part of a larger project to provide fire protection for the EBT shops complex. More information on the fire protection project is in this earlier Facebook post:
[www.facebook.com]
(I'm not a member of Facebook either, but that page is available to non-members)
.
- Graham
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