A Clean House Is A Happy House. A previously overlooked photo from August 13, 2020 tells almost as much of the story as many others from that day that show people or trains. On that day, the Kovalchik family joined the board of the East Broad Top Foundation and Fans of the East Broad Top Railroad to re-launch the tourist operation. From 1871 to 1956, the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company operated this railroad as a Common Carrier, moving passengers and freight, chiefly coal. The entire railroad was then sold to the Kovalchick Salvage Corporation, a company that ultimately operated the railroad rather than scrap any of it, and that era lasted until 2011. From 2011 until 2019, the railroad sat idle and the weeds grew on the tracks. A photo shoot in the autumn of 2019, the first event since the railroad's closure, was followed by the announcement of the sale of the railroad to the Foundation in early 2020. During the events of this day was the first time that the entire engine house in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania had been emptied for the public to see all of the equipment outdoors in a decade, and so sometimes a photo of less is in fact more.
