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East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 16 out of service through summer
By Dan Cupper | April 11, 2024 | Last updated on April 12, 2024
Cracked driver center sidelines 1916 Baldwin; GE to pinch-hit
East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 16 handles a northbound train on Long Fill north of Orbisonia, Pa., on Aug. 11, 2023. The locomotive will be sidelined until summer by a cracked driver center. Dan Cupper
ROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. – East Broad Top Railroad 2-8-2 engine No. 16 is out of service until the end of August due to a cracked driving-wheel center, the railroad announced today (Thursday, April 11).
In its place, the narrow gauge EBT will substitute its General Electric 55-ton center-cab diesel switcher M-7, the same unit that handled passenger trains from the resumption of scheduled service in 2021 until the 1916 Baldwin Locomotive Works steam engine was restored last year [see “East Broad Top steam returns …,” Trains News Wire, Feb. 20, 2023.
The railroad also said it will add several trips over the summer with its 1927 Brill gas-electric car, the M-1.
Related: East Broad Top 16 'Returns to Steam'
