Saturday Night Special #15309

The Story

East Broad Top Railroad steam engine #16 goes past a drive-in movie theater filled with classic cars as an old black and white horror movie shows on the screen. In this recreation, it’s easy to imagine the year is somewhere in the 1950s on a Saturday night, date night at the local drive-in theater. There’s a 1955 Chevy convertible and a 1949 Plymouth parked in the row.

East Broad Top #16 is the first of six old narrow gauge steam locomotives at the railroad to be fully restored and put back into operation. The other vintage steam locomotives on the railroad will surely follow over time as the new EBT Foundation proceeds with its plans to restore the little short-line railroad back to life as a tourist operation. Narrow gauge steam railroading is rather rare these days with just a handful of these railroads remaining in the country from the industrial age a century ago. This unique East Broad Top Railroad picture is well suited for any man cave, steam railroad enthusiast, or general railfan.

Location: Orbisonia, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA.