Fw: East Broad Top schedules September, October events

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It’s ALIVE! As the actor in the horror movie shouts out! In this case “it” is the famous East Broad Top Railroad! Over the years I have become a big fan of this narrow gauge coal hauler in rural Pennsylvania. It truly is like turning time back a half century! Of course riding behind standard gauge mainline steam like the N&W Class J 611 or the Class A 1218 are a blast from the past but the EBT embraces you with the total experience! It’s like you’re in a full size diorama complete with the shop facilities and the train station. Even the people seem to fit right in. Now’s your chance to experience the EBT in person. Many of us were worried about it’s future. Those worries have gone away since the purchase by new owners.
Check out the activities that are starting this month! Please share this email with your railroad friends! Thanks to Ed Mayover for sending me this information via Trains News Wire!
Best,
Norris


Norris Deyerle

Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners

Info: www.blueridgenrhs.org<http://www.blueridgenrhs.org>

744 Chinook Place

Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908

Cell: 434-851-0151

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From: Mayover, Edward <mayover at p-rsl.com>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:51 PM
Subject: East Broad Top schedules September, October events

East Broad Top schedules September, October events
By Wayne Laepple<https://trn.trains.com/authors/wayne-laepple> | September 9, 2020 - Trains News Wire


ORBISONIA, Pa. — The revitalized East Broad Top Railroad has announced several fall events, offering visitors several opportunities to visit the railroad, ride trains and enjoy a barbecue dinner.

On Friday, Sept. 18, and Saturday, Sept. 19, 90-minute guided tours of the East Broad Top shops complex will be offered at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Each tour will be limited to 15 people, and masks and social distancing will be required. A second set of tours will be offered on Friday Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets must be purchased in advance at $25 each.

Highlighting the tours will be operation of the stationary steam engine and demonstrations of the shop’s line shaft and belt system. In addition, visitors will be able to view work underway on steam locomotives Nos. 14 and 16, as well as rehabilitation work on the line’s 19th-century passenger equipment.

Also, on Oct. 2 and 3, a Harvest Moon Barbecue and train ride are planned. There will be two seatings for the catered barbecue each day, at 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Following the dinners, diesel locomotive M-7 will take visitors on a ride on the newly rehabilitated track to McMinn’s Summit and return.

Tickets and additional information on all events are available here<https://eastbroadtop.square.site/shop/tickets/13>.

The narrow gauge East Broad Top was purchased in February 2020 by the East Broad Top Foundation, Inc. Since then, employees, contractors and members of the Friends of the East Broad Top have been overhauling equipment and upgrading track.

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