The
East Broad Top Railroad line, a defunct, narrow gauge line, is still observable
in Three Springs, Pennsylvania. At its peak the company, which built the
mainline from Mount Union to Orbisonia between 1872 and 1874, owned 60 miles of
line. Its primary function was to remove coal from the Broad Top Mountain plateau.
From the late 19th century until the 1950s, the line hauled coal. With the
precipitous fall in coal prices and the switch to oil and gas, the railroad
switch to tourist excursions from 1961 to 2011. Although there is a preservation
society, it appears that excursions have not ran for the last four years.
Squirt Soda advertisement
On
a trip through Three Springs, I took the opportunity to photograph the line and
a railroad building with a (seeming) vintage advertisement for the soda Squirt.
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