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The East Broad Top Railroad (EBT) is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge historic and heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania. Operating from 1871 to 1956, it is one of the United States' oldest and best-preserved narrow-gauge railroads, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
This list of museums in Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The narrow-gauge East Broad Top Railroad was constructed through the community in 1873. Rockhill was selected as the location of the railroad's maintenance facility. The parent company Rockhill Iron and Coal located their dual-stack coke-fired iron furnace here. Rockhill as it exists today was created by the coal company and the railroad as a ...
Reading Railroad Heritage Museum; Rockhill Trolley Museum; SEPTA Route 15; Steamtown National Historic Site; Stewartstown Railroad; The Stourbridge Line; Strasburg Rail Road; Tioga Central Railroad (Closed in 2019) Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad; Wawa and Concordville Railroad (Closed in 1968) West Chester Railroad
The Rockhill Trolley Museum is a museum and heritage railway in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania that collects and restores trolley, interurban, and transit cars. Founded in 1960, the museum operates what has been historically referred to as the Shade Gap Electric Railway to demonstrate the operable pieces in its collection.
Friends of the East Broad Top Museum: Robertsdale: Huntingdon: Central PA: Transportation - Railroad: History and culture of the East Broad Top Railroad; Robertsdale is part of Wood Township Friendship Hill National Historic Site: Point Marion: Fayette: Pittsburgh Metro Area: Historic house: 18th-century home of early American politician Albert ...
East Broad Top #12 is the first Mikado locomotive built for the railroad in 1911. The new Mikado began the process of modernizing the East Broad Top locomotive fleet, replacing the aging mixed roster of various locomotive types which ran on the railroad prior. The locomotive was designed to haul 15 loaded coal hoppers on the railroad.