East Broad Top comes back to life

East Broad Top comes back to life

By Angela Cotey | December 19, 2016

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


In August 1960, four years after Pennsylvania’s coal-hauling, narrow-gauge East Broad Top shut down, owner Nick Kovalchik reopened part of it for tourist operations. People crowd the platform at Orbisonia, Pa., to board one of the first trips.
Don Wood photo

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