East Broad Top Best of 2008

by Lance Myers

This page of photos includes the 55 most interesting photographs that I shot at the EBT in 2008.
This collection of images best represents the 2008 season and is not necessarily good photography.

March 21 - FEBT Restoration
	All that's left to do on this project is paint the new wood. Great job FEBT Boiler House Rats!
March 30 - Speeder Line Brush Clearing
	Henry taking care of one of thousands of trees growing between EBT rails.
June 6-7 - Opening Weekend
	FEBT has finished hopper 802 and moved it over with the rest of the painted hoppers.
	For the first time in around 15 years, the EBT is burning Broad Top Coal. Notice how large the run-o-mine lumps are with the Orbisonia in the background.
	Here is the boxcar being converted to an open car.
	In the last month or so, removal of the boney pile has been finished, leaving a wide open empty area.

	At around 2 am, #15's fire is lit. Within 15 minutes it is blazing hot.
	M-1.
June 15 - Inside #M-1
	#15 at the ash pit.
	Today I took the opportunity to shoot a bunch of detail shots inside M-1.
	Water fountain complete with working cup dispenser.
	Stove manufacturers plate.
	From the rear door looking forward.
	In the right rear corner of the baggage compartment is this old fire extinguisher and an emergency valve.
	Toward the rear of the car from the baggage compartment.
	Toward the engine room from the baggage compartment.
	This shot shows one of the sliding baggage doors and the numbered mail slots for hauling and sorting the mail.
	M-1 has a couple of these overhead baggage racks.
	The engine room as viewed from the door on the left side.
	One of the spark plug wires partially covers up a BRILL logo cast on the M-1's engine.
	The manufacturers plate for the M-1's generator.
	On the walls of the engine room are the electrical components that make the M-1 tick.
	Opposite of the previous photo you have these on the left wall.
	At the rear of the engine room is this shreaking whistle. This is the whistle the conductor would use to signal the engineer.
	This shot shows the dual carbs.
	Here's the tachometer.
	Here is what the engineer sees sitting in his seat.
	Another shot of the dual carbs. The lever on the right is the spark advance.
	From the engineer's seat, this is the front of the engine with the radiator and fan in the background. If you look closely, you can see the motor that drives the giant fan.
	A closer look at the engineer's gauges.
	Inside one of the electrical boxes.
	Here is the exhaust piping going up to the muffler.
	Detail shot of the carburetor linkage.
	A closer look at one of the carburetors.

	The firing order of M-1's engine is 1-5-3-6-2-4.

	On the left is the brake valve; on the right is the throtle. Notice the primitive "reverser." You simply put the plug in the hole marked 'R' or 'F.'
	The rear door.
	In this shot of one of the trucks, notice the bearing caps have the same BRILL logo as the engine.
	Radiator linkage.
	The next few shots show the underside of M-1. This shows how a traction motor is attached to the wheel set. These are likely not mine locomotive motors because they have four leads instead of two and series and parrallel.


	Lots of piping and brake linkage.

August 16 - Appreciation Day & Civil War Weekend
	#M-7 poses on the turntable.
	#M-1 heading toward the roundhouse.
	Civil War reenactors.
October 10-12 - Fall Spectacular
	Mack #4.
	Scale test car #30.
	#M-3 meets #17.
	#M-1 on the coach track.
	FEBT finished the new handicap open boxcar just in time for the Fall Spectacular.