Im a friends of the ebt member to preface but:
My goodness! The work that jas been accomplished between the foundation and the friends is truly amazing! 5 years after the purchase we have:
New facility at the picnic grove, an operational steam locomotive that hadnt run since 1956, new passenger coaches, the machine shops being restored, new tours, and… rail heading south that hadnt had a train on it since 1956, and the motor car since the 1960s! Great job all involved!
Also fwiw, I’m giving a presentation on the EBT at the RPM east meet this month in Youngwood PA.
The saltillo station rebuilding started on Saturday!
Saltillo is the southern end of the current track laying project. The railroad had a water tank and a Wye there so it made sense to make it the goal.
Unfortunately the tank was burned in the 80s by arsonists, and the station was taken down in 2005. It had sat vacant without repairs for too many years and when they lost the roof- it was a matter of time.
BUT, the FEBT was able to have drawings made of nearly every inch of the building and saved a lot of architectural features. So its been a great year already, oh they also are at 300,000 dollars in donations, which surpased the 2025 fundraiser of 270,000.
Things are looking up for the “narrow gauge Phoenix”
The friends of the east broad top website.
You can still view the FEBT Facebook page without an account as well.
https://febt.org/ thats tge website. Iirc, the monthly newsletter is available as well, a few weeks behinf the original release date, but thats your best bet for the updates.
I follow this Flickr contributor, L.R. Myers, who has been posting photo-progress for years. Here is the most recent album:
Here are photos from the Peter Lerro (a fantastic watercolor artist) charter:
There are fourteen albums going back to 2001.
Most photos have descriptive captions so you know a bit of what is going on.
Good Luck, Ed
Hi Jim… I thought you were saying the Facebook page itself was accessible. I knew about the FEBT webpage but somehow I had missed the Newsletter… magnificent pictures and information in the newsletter, so thanks for that…
These are great…!!! Thanks Ed…
The reunion for the FEBT will be moved to MAY starting in 2026
