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East Broad Top Rolling Stock |
Jun 2003 / RWH
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Passenger
East Broad Top #8
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
East Broad Top #8 is a wooden coach built by Laconia Car Company. It was one of six wooden cars purchased second-hand by EBT in 1916 from the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. It was modified by the shortline in 1927 to its current configuration and remains in service.
1910 Official Guide ad / collection
from Model Railroader magazine - Sep 1961 / collection
Jun 2003 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2008 / Vern Wigfield 
Rockhill, Pa / Oct 2008 / John McCluskey
from Ramble into the Past on the East Broad Top - 1971 / collection
East Broad Top #15
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
East Broad Top #15 is a wooden car built by Laconia Car Company as a smoking coach. It was purchased secondhand by EBT in 1916 along with five other cars from the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. EBT later converted the car to a combine, as it remains today.
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 1985 / Charles Kinzer
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2006 / Kevin Owens
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Jul 2020 / RWH
Jul 2020 / RWH
Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #20 "Orbisonia"
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
1910 Official Guide ad / collection
East Broad Top #20 is a wooden parlor car built by Billmeyer & Smalls Car Works circa 1882. For a time it was used as President Grover Cleveland's private car for personal fishing trips. It was purchased secondhand by EBT in 1907 from the Big Level & Kinzua Railroad and used as the shortline's official company car "Orbisonia" for decades. The car remains in service today.
from Ramble into the Past on the East Broad Top - 1971 / collection
Excursion Cars
East Broad Top #111
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #119
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #119 is an open excursion car converted from a 1925 narrow gauge flatcar. In 1960, the rejuvenated EBT added benches and railings for carrying passengers and thereby easing the wear and tear on the vintage wooden coaches. The Friends of the East Broad Top organization completed an overhaul of this car in 2005.
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #168
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #168 is a handicap-accessible covered excursion car converted from a 1920 outside-brace wooden boxcar. The conversion was completed in 2008 by the Friends of the East Broad Top organization.
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #175
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #175 is a covered excursion car converted from a 1916 narrow gauge wooden boxcar. In 1960, the rejuvenated EBT cut down the boxcar and added benches for carrying passengers, thereby easing the wear and tear on the vintage wooden coaches.
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Cabooses
East Broad Top #27
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / JCH
Caboose #28
East Broad Top #28
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #27 (above) and #28 are wooden 2-truck cabooses both built onsite in 1920 and owned/operated by the railroad ever since. Number 28 was rebuilt by the Friends of the East Broad Top organization in 2004 in the same shop where it was constructed.
Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
RWH
from Model Railroader magazine - Sep 1961 / collection
Jul 2020 / RWH
from Model Railroader magazine - Sep 1961 / collection
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
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Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
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Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
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Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Freight
East Broad Top #116
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #116 was originally built as a flatcar in the EBT shops in 1925. Sometime after 1936, a 6000 gallon tank was added to the car, making it the only EBT tank car ever on the rolling stock roster. Without a working water column in early tourist years after 1960, the car was filled with water, pushed up a steep track near the coal tipple, and used to fill the steam locomotive tenders.
East Broad Top #170
wooden boxcar (1913) / Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
from Model Railroader magazine - Sep 1961 / collection
East Broad Top #180
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
East Broad Top #181
steel boxcar (1920) / Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2003 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 / RWH
from Model Railroader magazine - Sep 1961 / collection
Throughout the years, the East Broad Top operated, built, and maintained its own freight cars. Early coal hoppers were wooden until the first steel cars arrived in 1913. In fact, the EBT operated the only fleet of steel narrow gauge coal hoppers. To this day, several other railroads who have purchased EBT hoppers in the past still operate their EBT cars for maintenance purposes. The East Broad Top was a modern railroad for its time.
Rockhill, Pa / Jul 2020 and Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #802
side dump hopper (1913) / Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
East Broad Top #802 was one of 10 steel hoppers ordered from the Pressed Steel Car Company in 1913. Four the cars were later converted to side-dump hoppers by the EBT shops. This car was rebuilt by the Friends of the East Broad Top organization in 2008.
Chevrolet #4
East Broad Top #4
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
RWH
Jun 2022 / RWH
Jun 2022 / RWH
Rockhill, Pa / Jun 2022 / RWH
