East Broad Top Railroad Information References

Rating System: (based on the locos of the EBT)

Poor source, barely applicable, all information better covered elsewhere.
Fair source, useful only for those collecting extensive information on the EBT.
Moderate source, useful but not for the casual fan.
Good source, may contain an unusual twist on info available elsewhere.
Very good source, not extensive information, but has data not available elsewhere.
Excellent source, not comprehensive but highly recommended for fans.
Heavy hauler, a must for all with an interest in the EBT.

• Periodical Articles (Separate Page)
• Books
• Studies and Proposals
• Video Recordings
• Audio Recordings
• Book Articles
• Video Articles
• Periodicals
• Calendars
• Maps

Books

• Along the East Broad Top
  Donald Heimburger
  $41.95
  1st edition
  Heimburger House Publishing Company; Forest Park IL; © 1987
  248 p.; diagrams, color and b+w photos, limited text; 22x29 cm
  ISBN: 0-911581-08-1
  LCCN: 87-81409
  Notes: Available from the Colorado Railroad Museum, 1-800-365-6263
  Errors: p. 27 photo in lower right is Robertsdale not Orbisonia
  p. 48 photo in lower left is from Wrays Hill TOWARD Rocky Ridge
  p. 134 #2 was narrow gauge not standard
  p. 30 Robertsdale bridge is girder not truss
  p. 136 #6 was gone by 1987 but #3 was still there
  Review: This book takes a more geographic rather than historic approach to detailing the EBT and covers mostly the 30's and up. An excellent book.
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• Colorful East Broad Top
  Mallory Hope Ferrell
  $24.95
  1st edition
  Heimburger House Publishing Company; Forest Park IL; © 1993
  84 p.; maps, color photos, limited text; 28x22 cm
  ISBN: 0-911581-24-3
  LCCN: 91-071588
  Notes: Available from the Colorado Railroad Museum 1-800-365-6263
  Errors:
  Review: This book along with Slim Gauge Survivor contain the most vivid color photography, though it contains little text on the railroad. An execellent photographic reference.
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• East Broad Top
  R. Lee Rainey and Frank Kyper
  $49.95
  2nd edition, 3rd printing
  Golden West Books; San Marino CA; © 1982
  258 p.; charts, diagrams, maps, b+w photos, extensive text; 22x29 cm
  ISBN: 0-87095-078-9
  LCCN: 81-20326
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
  Errors: p. 53, middle photo is second #4 not first #4;
  Review: This is THE reference for the EBT fan. It is the only source to authoritatively document the railroad from the discovery of coal in the region. The only negative is that it has negligible coverage of the railroad since the 1960's, though this era is well documented elsewhere.
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• East Broad Top: Slim Gauge Survivor
  Deane Mellander
  $48.00
  1st edition
  Old Line Graphics; Silver Spring MD; © 1995
  128 p.; maps, color photos, limited text; 22x29 cm
  ISBN: 1-879314-12-6
  LCCN: 95-072519
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
  Errors: p111 caption numbers are reversed, above is #13 below is #12
  p80 (top) this was taken from No. 5 toward No. 1
  p117 (top) This is the air compressor not the dynamo
  Review: This book along with CEBT contain the most vivid color photography. SGS provides more enlightening captions than CEBT and also has chapter text and an encapsulated history.
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• East Broad Top: to the Mines and Back
  Ross Grenard and Frederick A. Kramer
  $9.95
  1st edition
  Carstens; Newton NJ; © 1980
  80 p.; maps, photos, little text; 22x28 cm
  ISBN: 9-11868-40-2
  LCCN: ?
  Notes: out of print
  Errors: p. 4, Rockhill Furnaces did not migrate from the furnaces, it was where it is now. The station was originally Rockhill Furnace station, but was changed to avoid confusion with another Rockhill, PA; p. 23, map identifies Hill Valley Creek as Mill Valley Creek.
  Review: This book is a B+W pictorial of the line geographically ordered. The captions are enlightening but there is little to the accompanying text. It does contain many pictures not available elsewhere.
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• A Quick Review of the East Broad Top - The Narrow Gauge of the East
  Joseph A. Mannix, III
  Street Price: $35.00
  1st edition
  East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company; Rockhill Furnace PA; © 1960
  38 p.; maps, B+W photos, little text; 16x23 cm
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: out of print
  Errors:
  Review: pending
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• A Ramble into the Past on the East Broad Top
  Frank Kyper
  $3.00
  1st edition, second printing
  East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company; Rockhill Furnace PA; © 1971, 79
  64 p.; maps, B+W photos, text; 30x45 cm
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: Official souvenir booklet, Recently reprinted.
  Errors:
  Review: pending
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• The Roy Wilburn Story: The Man Behind the EBT
  Ron Morgan
  $12.00 + 1.75 S+H
  1st edition
  Ron Morgan; Robertsdale, PA; © 1995
  63 p.; etchings, b+w photos, extensive text; 14x21 cm
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: Available from Ron Morgan; Box 171; Robertsdale, PA 16674
  Errors:
  Review: This book concentrates on the man, not the railroad. It does, however, shed more light onto the inner working of the EBT.
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• Echoes from the Mines V.1
  Ron Morgan
  $16.00 S+H included
  1st edition
  Ron Morgan; Robertsdale, PA; © 1995
  
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: Available from the Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum; Robertsdale, PA 16674
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Studies and Proposals

• Study of Alternatives : East Broad Top Railroad National Historic Landmark
  United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
  America's Industrial Heritage Project; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, 1990.
  Draft, December 1990.
  157 p.; charts, diagrams, maps, b+w photos, moderate text; 22x28 cm.
  Notes: Available from Technical Information Center, National Park Service, 12975 W. Alameda Parkway, PO Box 25287, Denver Colorado 80225-0287, 303/969-2130
  Errors:
  Review: This study is the first to fully explore the possibilites for the preservation and restoration of the EBT.
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• Huntingdon County Pennsylvania, An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites
  Nancy S. Shedd
  United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
  America's Industrial Heritage Project; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, 1991.
  198 p.; maps, b+w photos, moderate text; 22x28 cm.
  Notes: Available from Technical Information Center, National Park Service; 12975 W. Alameda Parkway; PO Box 25287; Denver Colorado 80225-0287; 303/969-2130
  Errors: Numerous building dates on EBT structures are wrong including Saltillo and Orbisonia Stations, Pogue Bridge and the Paint Shop
  Review: The EBT is but one of many sites covered in this study.
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• Brickyard Towns: A History of Refractories Industrial Communities in South-Central Pennsylvania
  Kim E. Wallace
  United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
  America's Industrial Heritage Project; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, 1993.
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
  Errors:
  Review: review pending
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• Rockhill Iron and Coal Company Towns
  United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
  America's Industrial Heritage Project; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission.
  98 p.; b+w photos, maps, moderate text; 22x28 cm.
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
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• Cultural Landscapes of the East Broad Top Railroad
  Pennsylvania State University, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1995.
  Notes: Available from Attn: Landscape/Architecture Department; "Cultural Landscapes of the East Broad Top Railroad"; Brenda Ross; Penn State; 210 Engineering Unit "D"; University Park, PA 16802
  $15 to Penn State University, no addl. S+H.
  Errors:
  Review: review pending
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• Living Legacy of the EBT
  Pennsylvania State University, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1997.
  Notes: Available from Attn: Landscape/Architecture Department; "Living Legacy of the EBT"; 210 Engineering Unit "D"; University Park, PA 16802
  $20 to Penn State University, no addl. S+H.
  Errors:
  Review: review pending
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• Full Steam Ahead, East Broad Top National Historic Landmark
  The EBT Partnership in cooperation with East Broad Top Railroad / Rockhill Coal Company
  $12.00 + $3.00 S+H
  September 1995
  28p.; charts, maps, b+w photos, extensive text; 22x28 cm.
  Notes: Available from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission; 105 Zee Plaza; PO Box 565; Hollidaysburg, PA 16648-0565
  Errors:
  Review: This study has outlined the present course toward the preservation and restoration of the EBT.
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Video Recordings

• East Broad Top
  $34.95
  JMJ Productions; © 1983
  60 minutes mono video
  Notes: Available from the Steamtown Bookstore or Gandy Dancer Videos
  Errors: #12 was the first, not last Mikado
  Review: This tape covers special excursion operations for the Valley Forge Narrow Gauge Convention. Only #15 is running excursion and M-1, M-4 and #17 are brought out for static display. The tape recites many locomotive specs but does not explain the date or significance of the event in EBT operations.
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• East Broad Top
  $29.96
  Pentrex; © 1997
  108 minutes stereo video
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
  Errors:
  Review: This tape covers excursion era operations and status of the EBT. Three segments cover EBT weekend operation, dormant parts of the line, and the Fall Spectacular. It includes interviews with Lee Rainey and Stanley Hall and a tour of the shops. The tape places a much needed emphasis on the precarious nature of the line and the need to preserve it. The cinematography on the tape is excellent.
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• East Broad Top Revisited
  $34.95
  JMJ Productions; © 1992
  35 minutes mono video
  Notes: Available from the Steamtown Bookstore or Gandy Dancer Videos
  Why no mention of #14?
  Errors:
  Review: This tape covers both normal and spectacular operations. #12, #15, #17 and M-1 are running excursions and M-5 makes a rescue run to retrieve #12 and train. The Silver Sightseer, M-3, the Spider and the pump hadcar are on static display. Again the tape covers specs but not the railroad. This tape is short but packs much more action than its hour long predecessor.
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• The East Broad Top: A Living Landmark
  $39.95
  Friends of the EBT /Mason Dixon Productions; 1992
  53 minutes mono video
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store
  Errors:
  Review: This tape is very well researched. The first part covers the history of the line using still photos and later film from the 30's through 50's. This film alone makes the tape worth buying. The film quality on the documentation of the current line was a bit disappointing. This tape makes an excellent companion with "The East Broad Top, From the Camera of Emery Gulash".
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• The East Broad Top: From the Camera of Emery Gulash
  $39.95 (VHS)
  $34.95 (DVD)
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.; Marietta, GA; © 1990
  120 minutes stereo video
  Notes: Available from FEBT Company Store or from Green Frog Productions
  Errors: Shirleysburg is initially misidentified as Shirleysville, the Mikados have 48" drivers not 36", included map misidentifies Blacklog Creek as Shade Creek, Shade gap branch was built to connect to the South Penn Railroad not the Pennsylvania Railroad Extension.
  Review: This video copies 16mm color footage from 1953, 60, 63, 76, 77 and covers the line from Mount Union to Rockhill Furnace. I was dissappointed to see no coverage south of Rockhill, but the sound and picture are great. Coverage is about equally weighted to each year.
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• East Broad Top Fall Spectacular 1996
  $29.95
  Highball Productions
  90 Minutes
  Notes:
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  Review: review pending
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• Little Engines That Could
  $59.95 (1985)
  Berkshire Videography; Brunswick, OH; © 1984
  52 Minutes
  Notes: Berkshire seems to be out of business, sources of tape few
  Errors: Railways to Yesterday not Yesteryear
  Review: This was the first video documentary on the EBT and is a good all around tape on the line.About 1/4 of the tape covers teh history of the line while the rest coveres current (as of 1984) operations by showing a typical operating day on the railroad.
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• Steam on the East Broad Top
  $24.95
  Blue Ridge Video
  59 Minutes
  Notes: Video of the 2002 Carl Franz photo excursion feturing #14 in common carrier black paint scheme.
  Errors:
  
  

• East Broad Top Fall Spectacular 1988
  $21.95 (1988)
  Kauffman Creative Services
  47 min
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• All Aboard: East Broad Top
  VHS $19.95
  DVD (5 disk set)
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.
  2 hours, unknown EBT content
  Notes: 1953 common carrier operations and winter spectacular triple-header
  Errors:
  Review: This tape is nothing more than a cut down version of The East Broad Top: From the Camera of Emery Gulash. A much wiser inventment would be to pay the extra $20 and get almost three times the content with that tape.
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• East Broad Top VHS 1991 Fall Spectacular
  Street price $20.00
  Rail Oz Video, Hagerstown, MD
  70 minutes
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• East Broad Top
  £23.95
  Steam Powered Railroading
  ?
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• Great American Scenic Railroads: East Broad Top
  $29.95
  Questar
  60 minutes
  Notes: part of a series of tapes.
  Errors:
  Review: This is and exact copy of the Pentrex EBT tape, redistributed by Questar.
  EBT Rating: see Pentrex EBT tape
  
  

Videos with EBT content

• The 100 Engine Tape
  $29.95
  Main Line Motion Pictures
  115 minutes, unknown EBT content
  Notes: Footage of #12, #14, #15 and #17
  VHS or DVD
  Errors:
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  EBT Rating: review pending
  
  

• All Aboard Series: Volume III
  $19.95
  Pentrex
  2 hours, about 30 minutes EBT content
  Notes: 1953 common carrier operations and winter spectacular triple-header
  Errors:
  Review: This is the same content as All Aboard: East Broad Top on the same tape as two other All Aboard episodes.
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• America's Railroads: The Steam Train Legacy - Volume II
  $39.95
  360 minutes, EBT content unknown
  Notes: Three DVD set.
  This may be transfers of the vintage Blackhawk commercial 8mm films.
  Errors:
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• The Appalachian Coal Industry: Modeling the Prototype
  $24.95
  Green Frog
  60 minutes, EBT content unknown
  Notes: Some old film of the East Broad Top, which may duplicate other tapes - ???
  Errors:
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• The Best of Steam - From the Camera of Emery Gulash $24.95
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.
  60 minutes, unknown EBT content
  Notes:
  Errors:
  Review: This is likely another snippet of Gulash's EBT footage.
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• Conrail Middle Division: Altoona to Harrisburg
  $29.95
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.
  60 minutes, unknown EBT content
  Notes: Covers Mt. Union only
  Errors:
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• Railroad Video Quarterly
  November, 1994
  $18.00
  Revelaton Audio-Video
  Best of 1987-94 Spectaculars (26 minutes)
  Notes: Covers Mt. Union only
  Errors:
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• The Fading Days Of Steam
  Rail Tapes
  85 minutes - unkown EBT content
  Sequence on operations at Mt. Union show the 0-6-0 in action

• The Glory Machines Vol. 1, 1928-1960
  Herron Rail Service
  1985
  64 minutes - uknown EBT content
  EBT amongst 31 other roads, all between 1928 and 1960

• Great American Train Rides Volume III
  $14.95
  Pentrex
  aka Great Eastern American Train Rides Volume I
  $29.95 (sold only as 2 volume set)
  Produced by Pentrex, distributed by Questar
  60 minutes (each tape), 7 minutes of EBT content plus 4 of the Rockhill Troley Museum
  Notes: Color, live audio and narration; EBT among 10 other lines and sites
  Errors: The tape says the ride is 10 miles each way instead of 10 round trip.
  Review: A nice condenced coverage of the EBT and its relavence. A couple shots duplicate from Pentrex's EBT tape but most to not. The sound was warbly and not very crisp on the copy tested.
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• Great American Scenic Railroads
  ???
  length unknown
  Questar
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• A Guide to Trains: The World's Greatest Trains, Tracks & Travel
  Street price $16.00
  Fogg City Press
  length unknown, unknown EBT content
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• Pentrex The Best of 1985 - East Broad Top
  $29.95
  Pentrex
  length unknown, unknown EBT content
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• Pennsylvania Railroad K4 #1361 and East Broad Top 2-8-2 #15
  Main Line Motion Pictures
  length unknown, unknown EBT content
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• Pentrex Previews Volume 6
  $19.95
  Pentrex
  90 Minutes, unknown EBT content
  Notes: In Color and Black & White, with HiFi Stereo Sound and Narration
  Errors:
  Review: This is likely nothing more than the cropped down EBT content of All Aboard Series: Volume III amongst about 26 other lines.
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• Railroading USA
  £12.99
  Green Umbrella Video Ltd.
  47 minutes, unknown EBT Content
  Notes: East Broad Top RR among 5 other sites
  Errors:
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• Steam in the Autumn
  $24.95
  ???
  length unknown
  Notes: Video of #14, part of the "Golden Age of Steam" series
  Errors:
  

• Top Frog Series, Vol. II
  ???
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.
  length unknown
  Notes: East Broad Top along with the New York Central, Union Pacific, Rio Grande, Pennsy, Nickel Plate, Akron, Canton & Youngstown, and Grand Trunk.
  Errors:
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• Tracks Ahead: Volume 3
  Pentrex
  unknown length; unknown EBT content
  19??
  Notes: #TA03, two tapes, contains six episodes
  Errors:
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• America's most endangered, 1996
  $19.95
  60 min; unknown EBT content
  ??? 1992
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• Rediscovering America - Railroads Robbers and Rebels
  ???
  length unknown
  ???
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• Model Railroader Video Layout Tour #2
  $39.95
  60 minutes
  ???
  Notes: Doug Taylor's HOn3 East Broad Top layout among about five ohters.
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Audio Recordings

• Sounds of the East Broad Top CD or Cassette
  $10.95 Cassette
  $12.95 CD
  Green Frog Productions, Ltd.; Marietta, GA; Cassette © 1989; CD © 1999
  Stereo
  CD; 37 minutes; 24 tracks
  Cassette; 36 minutes; 2 sides with 24 tracks
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: Available from the FEBT Company Store or from Green Frog Productions
  Errors:
  Review: The recordings are of excellent quality. Most if not all are of #14 apparently on a night train and covers most of the sounds the loco can make.
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• East Broad Top; Denver and Rio Grande Western
  $8.00
  Railroad Record Club; Hawkins, WI; 1956
  Mono ??
  33 1/3 LP Record; 12" disk; 1 side EBT with 3 tracks , 1 side D&RGW with 1 long track
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: none
  Notes: Available from the EBT Gift Shop, out of stock when last checked.
  Errors: The loco specs on the sleeve are close but not exact
  Review: These are common carrier recordings of the EBT and dramatically illustrate the mikados doing real freight work. In the best track #15 battles her way up the grade between the tunnels.
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• Night Train to Orbisonia
  Original List $?, Street $15.00
  Produced and realeased by Ralbar Productions; Pottstown, PA; © 1965
  Stereo and Mono editions
  33 1/3 LP Record; 12" disk; 2 sides EBT; 10 bands
  ISBN: none
  LOCN R65-2739
  Notes: This appears to be the long version of the early souvinier record below.
  Errors:
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• East Broad Top
  Original List $.99, Street $35.00
  Produced by Ralbar Productions; Pottstown, PA; 1961
  Released by Associated Hobby Manufacturers, Inc.; 3200 Boubinot St.; Philadelphia, PA
  Also released under the Semaphore label
  Mono ??
  33 1/3 SP Record: 7" disk; 2 sides EBT; with 6 bands
  ISBN: none
  LCCN: R61-1287
  Notes: This record was produced as a souvenir for the early tourist days.
  Errors:
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Audio Recordings with EBT content

• Steam Locomotives Volume #6
  East Broad Top RR , Pioneer Tunnel RR, Strasburg #7002, and W K & S #65
• Steam Whistle Symphony Part 1
  1 hour casette tape
  1970's and 80's sound samples
  Notes: contains Whistle Salute for first fall steamup (1983?) Errors: Says five mikado whistes, but there were at most four running then.
• Steam Whistle Symphony Part 3
  1 hour casette tape
  1970's and 80's sound samples
  Notes: recording of #14 Errors: identifies #14 as "the Millie" which is #12.
• Titans of the High Iron
  Riverside RLP
  Mostly Reading 2124 and 2100 with three tracks of EBT #12 and #15, likely from 1960.
• Steam Locomotives
  Locomotive Works Division - Ramos Corporation
  EBT RR, the Pioneer Tunnel RR, Strasburg #7002 and WK&S #65
• Steam Whistles 1
  1 hour cassette
  Five mikes all blowing their whistles in the final event of the first fall steam up.
• Steam's Greatest Hits
  LP
  
• Hi-Fi Iron Horse
  LP
  

• Trains Album of Photographs Eastern Railroads
  Kalmbach
  

• America's Railroads
  Robert A Le Massena
  p. ??
  Unknown EBT content
  Notes:
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• America's Workhorse Locomotive the 2-8-2
  Don Ball Jr.
  p. ??
  Unknown EBT content
  Notes:
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• The American Passenger Car
  John H. White Jr.
  p. 369
  Diagrams of #20 Orbisonia
  Notes:
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• American Steam Locomotives: Alive and Still Working Today
  Henry Rasmussen
  Notes: Roundhouse on Pennsylvania’s East Broad Top Line
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• Chasing Trains - The Lifetime Sttry of the Founder of the Colorado Railroad Museum Robert W. Richardson.
  NOTES: Porfles Richardwon's visits to about two dozen railroads, including the EBT
  

• Colorado Rail Annual Number 21
  Narrow Gauge News: The Collected Newsletters of Robert W. Richardson
  

• Colorado Rail Annual 1963
  Colrado Railroad Musem
  Includes a one page article on the EBT and its 1960 reopening. One B&W photo from 1960.

• Collected Colorado Rail Annual
  Colrado Railroad Musem
  Includes Colorado Rail Annual 1963 (#1)

• A Guide to Trains World's Greatest Trains, Tracks & Travel
  Fogg City Press
  Mention of EBT is Chapter 7.

• Great American Scenic Railroads
  Terry Berger and Robert Reid
  1985
  E.P. Dutton, 112p, SB
  

• Highball
  Lucious Beebe
  1945
  p. 27,41,45-47
  text, photo of #15 and miners train
  Notes:
  Errors: Prarie 11 is listed on the roster though it was sold in 1943.
  

• Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways
  Hamilton Ellis
  

• Railroads: An illustrated history of trains from early steam power to the latest designs.
  David C. Lustig
  Photo of East Broad Top 2-8-2 12 and 17 resting at Orbisonia, Pennsylvania depot
  

• The Last of Steam
  Joe G Collias
  LCCN: 60-14067
  p. 97-99
  little text and photo of 16
  Notes:
  Errors: #16 has five sisters, not four; The EBT closed due to a drop in the demand for coal, not because Robertsdale coal was exhausted; The roundhouse is brick, not stone
  

• Mainline Steam Revival
  Ron Ziel
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• Narrow Gauge Data
  Robert Sloan
  Ntrack Publishing
  ISBN:
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• Narrow Gauge Railway Scenes
  Adolf Hungry Wolf
  Canadian Caboose Press, Skookumchuck, British Columbia, 1992
  ISBN: 0-920698-41-7
  Notes:
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• North American Locomotives
  Brian Hollingsworth
  ISBN 0-517-441160
  p. 68-69, 91
  text and color photos of #15 at Orbisonia and #16 at Mount Union
  Notes:
  Errors: #14 was 1912, not 1911; Narrow gauge wasn't always rare east of the Mississippi; The preserved line is 5 not 10 miles.
  

• On the Three Foot Gauge: With Rio Grande Southern, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Isle of Man Railway, Donegal Railways, Columbia Railways, Argent Lumber, Unoted of Yucatan, and East Broad Top
  Mead, Edgar Thorn
  Weedy Rail Books, Washington D.C. and Etna, New Hampshire; 1991
  Notes:
  Errors
  

• Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways
  Hamilton Ellis
  LCCN: ???
  p. ???
  Notes:
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• Rails to Pittsburgh
  W. A. Feibelman
  LCCN: ???
  p. ???
  Notes:
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• The Railroaders Stuart Leuthner and Photographs by Lawson Little
  Random House; 1983
  Notes: Profile of James A. Pheasant, East Broad Top Railroad, engineer
  Errors
  

• Railroads: An American Journey
  Don Ball, Jr.
  ISBN: 0-517-46383
  p. 196-199
  little text, photos of #17 at Sideling Hill, Shirleysburg, and Augwick and #14 at the coal docks
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• Short Line Odyssey: Small RRs in the Northeast
  William S. Young
  1981 by Starrucca Valley Publications Notes:
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• Shortline Operating Patterns in the Early 20th Century
  Lee Rainey
  Examines operating practices of shortlines from 1900-1930 with an emphasis on passenger service. Topics considered include mail, industry, comuter and excursion service. Examples are drawn from the East Broad Top, Waynesburg & Washington, and Ohio River & Western Railroads.
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• Slim Gauge Cars
  Hal Carstens
  ISBN: ???5
  p. ???
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• The Spirit of Steam
  William L. Withuhn
  ISBN: 0-8517-5511-5
  p. 61,130,142
  photos of #12, #14, #14 refit, quadruple-header
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• Slim Gauge Cars
  ???
  LCCN: ???
  p. 9, 26
  Notes: Boxcar also published in Railroad Model Craftsman, December 1953
  Errors:
  

• Steam Pikes along the Turnpike
  J A Stowe
  LCCN: ???
  Notes: 1970's tourist railroad operations
  Errors:
  

• A Treasury of Railroad Folklore
  Benjamin A. Botkin
  LCCN: ???
  p. ???
  Notes:
  Errors:
  

• The Historical Guide to North American Railroads, Second Edition
  George Drury
  LCCN: ???
  p. 159
  Notes:
  Errors:
  

• The Twilight of Steam Locomotives
  Ron Ziel
  LCCN: 63-18975
  p. 148-150
  text, 3 photos, 2 of #15 and 1 of a train
  Notes: #17 listed as out of steam, #18 unmentioned
  Errors:
  

• The Great World of Model Railroading
  1975
  p. 4-11,12
  Notes:
  Errors:
  

• Model Railroad Planning 1997
  1997
  
  Notes:
  Errors:
  

• R&L Bulletin #110, April 1964
  The life and times of the East Broad Top Railroad
  Notes: East Broad Top might have Been layout
  Errors:
  

Calendars

• 1961 Pacific Railway Journal Steam Railroad
  8.5x11 b+w, page per month
  
• 1964 Golden West Books Steam Railroad
  8.5x11 b+w, page per month
  
• 1967 Golden West Books Steam Railroad Calendar
  8.5x11 b+w, page per month
  Single EBT shot of large mike northbound at Kimmel
• 1975 Golden West Books Steam Railroad Calendar
  8.5x11 b+w, page per month
  Single EBT shot, apparently on May.
• 1981 Potomac Chapter Railroad Calendar
  East Broad Top Mikado in 1979
• 1994 Railroads OF America
  page per month
  Moth of October shows EBT 18
• 2003 Those Magnificent Trains
  East Broad Top 2-8-2 Mikado No. 17 approaching the Orbisonia, Pennsylvania station, October 1994
  12x12 color
  
• 2003 Orchard Hardware Supply - Paintings by Larry Fisher July painting - East Broad Top #17 northbound and #12 southbound at Orbisonia Station
• 2005 Magnificent Trains
  Published for Willard J. Moody, Sr., Legal Counsel, Railroad Law

Maps

• US Geological Survey
  1:24,000 (7.5 minute) topographic maps
  Main Line Quadrangles: Mount Union, PA; Newton Hamilton, PA; Augwick, PA, Butler Knob, PA; Orbisonia, PA; Saltillo, PA; Saxton, PA
  Branch Line Quadrangles: Shade Gap, PA; Cassville PA

• US Geological Survey
  1:625,000 (out of production since the 1940's but shows the EBT at its height) topographic maps
  Main Line Quadrangles: Mount Union, PA; Orbisonia, PA
  Branch Line Quadrangles: Huntingdon, PA

• Street Atlas USA from Delorme Mapping
  Shows the EBT main and the Coles and Rocky Ridge branches.

• EBT Interstate Commerce Comission Valuation Maps
  These maps were aoriginally made in 1917 after the release of the railroads from covernment control. The EBT updated the maps through the years and the fonal version should soon be available through the FEBT Company Store.

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