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EBT’s Return

The East Broad Top excursion we had photographed (see yesterday’s post) wandered up to Colgate Grove and was turned on the wye.

In the interval, we went for pizza, which we consumed trackside. Soon smoke on the horizon and a distant whistle announced the returning train.

I took up a lineside position and focused both my film and digital cameras in anticipation of the locomotive coming into view.

It was exciting to see old number 16 up close and under steam. I had seen this locomotive back in the 1990s. In those days it resided in the gloom of the roundhouse at Rockhill Furnace where it had been for decades.

Now this old Baldwin narrow gauge 2-8-2 has steam in its belly again and was performing as the star of the show. No.16 looks and sounds great!

I made these photos with my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom lens.

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Broad Top and the Barn or No. 16 Under Steam

Last Saturday, we visited the fabled East Broad Top in passing.

This was one stop in our quick pass through central Pennsylvania.

We waited along highway 522 for the northward EBT passenger train

In the 15 years since, I last made photographs along the line (, EBT has undergone tranformations.

This was my first opportunity to catch recently restored EBT Mikado No. 16 under steam.

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Atmospheric East Broad Top shops

During our tour of the East Broad Top Railroad last week (March 2022), I made a variety of atmospheric interpretive images inside the old shop buildings at Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.

The railroad has done an amazing job of shoring up these 19th century structures, while retaining their rustic character.

I last visited these shops in 1997! A quarter century ago.

These photos were exposed with my Nikon Z6 digital camera.

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The Other ‘Millie’.

These days when I think of ‘The Millie,’ it is Conway Scenic’s RDC 23 that comes to mind.

The other Millie is much older. And that is East Broad Top’s Baldwin 2-8-2 No 12.

Last week Kris and I were given a tour of the East Broad Top facilities at Rock Hill Furnace, Orbisonia, Pennsylvania and I was reacquainted with Millie, a locomotive I hadn’t seen or photographed in nearly 25 years.

I made this view using my Nikon Z6 digital camera.

More on the EBT soon!

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