Yard Moves. EBT Mikado #15 passes the water column on the west side of the Orbisonia Yard as she works at putting together a freight consist.

One of the biggest challenges in processing... (more)

Passing the Sand House. EBT Mikado #15 passes the old sand tower as she shuttles some freight cars around the Orbisonia Yard on a cool, fall afternoon under changeable skies. This image w... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Freight to Mt. Union. EBT Mikado #15 blows for the Enyart Road crossing as she takes a short freight north toward Mt. Union on a foggy fall morning. This image was sh... (more)

Steamy East Broad Top: At the water plug. Oozing about as much steam as I could ever ask for, EBT's venerable "Mike" #15 pauses at the water plug adjacent to the shop building to... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: The ash pit. EBT Mikado #15 sits at the ashing station as the hostlers dump ashes and clean her fire before turning the locomotive over to the crew who will run her fo... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Echoes of the Past. EBT Mikado #15 steams at the ash pit as her stablemate, Mikado #17 rests on an adjacent track. In days of old, multiple narrow gauge Mikados would... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Cleaning the Fire. EBT Mikado #15 sits at the ashing station as the hostlers clean her fire and dump ashes, before turning the locomotive over to the crew who will run... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Oozing Steam. Having just been turned to face south, EBT Mikado #15 sits on the Orbisonia Turntable just oozing steam from a number of sources. In the background, is ... (more)

Heave! EBT shop crew members lean hard on the push poles of the Orbisonia Turntable as they turn Mikado #15 to align her with the service track....and give us a rear-quarter view of their l... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: The "Armstrong" Turntable. East Broad Top crews unlock their manual "Armstrong" Turntable as they prepare to rotate Mikado #15 onto the servicing t... (more)

Misty East Broad Top: Leaving the House. On a cool, misty fall morning, EBT's last operable Mike leaves the Orbisonia Round House to begin what would be the last of the railroad's Fall Spec... (more)

The East Broad Top Mikes slumber on inside the roundhouse at Rock Hill Furnace, PA. Although no news yet of a revitalization of operations, photo tours are granted for those interested and proceed... (more)

East Broad Top doodlebug M-1 takes a spin on the Orbisonia turntable. The gas-electric’s day is over, and it’s time to go into the roundhouse.

East Broad Top doodlebug M-1 rolls past the Orbisonia machine shop. After an afternoon of shuttling back and forth to Shirleysburg, it’s time to head to the roundhouse.

Put your backs into it, boys! It’s not common knowledge, but the East Broad Top sometimes used child labor as part of the operations. Here, three underage workers assist a supervisor to ... (more)