Fascinating. Thank you for your hard work investigating and uploading this for us all to enjoy. It's much appreciated.

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. I find this “work” therapeutic & recreational.

I appreciate all the hard work that you have put into this video. I also thank you for all the other video's that you make but my favourite one's are about the EBT. I don't think I will ever get a chance to visit in person and so your work on the EBT is very helpful .

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words!

A very awesome look into the shops history, i get up there occasionally and i always wanna learn more and more about the EBT. Thank you for this video sir

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

14s cab is still coated w POR primer. (Paint on rust)

@historysablast

Ай бұрын

It’s a scene from 1990.

I have a log home build around 1850ish 3 miles down the road from EBT. Any Idea where I can find info on the history of it?

@historysablast

Ай бұрын

Sorry, no.

What's the next east broad top railroad track update

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

Oh, there are other folks covering that, too, and more current than we’ve been. Lot’s of drone shots, photos of the crew in action. Check out Fans of the East Broad Top on FB. We’ll get a video up whenever we can get over that way. Thanks for your interest.

Was the first turntable a cast iron turn table? Length?

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the first one was wooden. The replacement was, I believe, cast iron; picture in R&K _East Broad Top_ is the only image I recall seeing.

@cattaraugustonawanda4426

2 ай бұрын

@@historysablast The reason I asked is that someone who is knowledgeable suggested that the TT that failed was a Sellers turntable which had a weak link holding the for arms. Were there three TTs including the present TT?

@cattaraugustonawanda4426

2 ай бұрын

@@historysablast I think the current TT is steel but I may be wrong. Your history project is outstanding to say the least. I've been to the EBT once back in the 1980s and the shops were the most interesting. Thanks for your efforts!

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

@@cattaraugustonawanda4426 Pg. 63 in R&K _East Broad Top_ has the picture I mentioned; the caption says it was a steel, not an iron, turntable, that appears to be the Sellers design (round holes in the girders). That turntable replaced the one that collapsed, per the text in R&K. The incident was not recorded in the Directors minutes. And there WERE three, including the present one, purchased 2nd hand - originally on the NYC. FYI, originally there were three turntables on the EBT - one (possibly apocryphal) shown on a sketch map of Mt. Union yard in the 1873 county atlas; one at Rockhill (Orbisonia); and one at Robertsdale, which was documented in the Directors' minutes as being replaced with the wye when No. 7 (purchased 1881) proved too long for it.

@historysablast

2 ай бұрын

@cattaraugustonawanda4426 You are correct; it is standard gauge width, former NYC, set up for compressed air power, but as far as is known it has always been an "Armstrong" turntable on the EBT.