Nostalgia & History > Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad Question

Needs location.

Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad steam locomative 2-8-0 38 unrecorded location on Septmber 6, 1948. Photographed by Donald W. Furler and in the Collection of the Center for Railroad Photography and Art


Thanks,
Marty Bernard
Volunteer
Center for Railroad Photography and Art
 

---

Note the Supplee milk reefer behind the loco.  It was interchanged with the PRR at Huntingdon PA.  The milk was brought to a Supplee-Wills-Jones dairy in Philadelphia.  The company later became part of Sealtest.

It is my understanding, though damaged in a fire not many years ago, No 38 survives today, including some other rolling stock.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

Maybe Saxonburg area??

MartyBernard Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Needs location.
>
> Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad steam
> locomative 2-8-0 38 unrecorded location on
> Septmber 6, 1948. Photographed by Donald W. Furler
> and in the Collection of the Center for Railroad
> Photography and Art
>
>
> Thanks,
> Marty Bernard
> Volunteer
> Center for Railroad Photography and Art
>  

wabash2800 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> It is my understanding, though damaged in a fire
> not many years ago, No 38 survives today,
> including some other rolling stock.
>
> Victor A. Baird
> http://www.erstwhilepublications.com
It's at the Claysburg, PA. enginehouse of the Everett RR, AFAIK still in pieces. everettrailroad.com has extensive info and photos about how it got in their hands.

LV95032 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Maybe Saxonburg area??
>
> MartyBernard Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Needs location.
> >
> > Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad steam
> > locomative 2-8-0 38 unrecorded location on
> > Septmber 6, 1948. Photographed by Donald W.
> Furler
> > and in the Collection of the Center for
> Railroad
> > Photography and Art
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marty Bernard
> > Volunteer
> > Center for Railroad Photography and Art
> >  
You mean Saxton PA. in Bedford County. Until 1954, when the H&BT stopped operating, this town of about 1,000 people was literally surrounded by the H&BT operations.
This 1945 pic taken from an adjacent mountaintop, shows:
Roundhouse at center, car and heavy repair shops at lower right center.
Depot is at center right edge of photo, along with 1 of 2 yards for marshaling coal hoppers. Mainline to Huntingdon,PA. goes across Raystown Branch of Juniata River at upper right corner.
Mainline from Everett ran from left to right through yard along bottom of photo, into a large wye that took it behind a hill and then to Saxton's depot. 
There are no RR structures left intact here now, only bare roadbed, vacant lots, and crumbling bridge abutments.
I have added a c.2000 photo taken from the same location to show the absence of the RR, the cleared area at lower right was the car shops, razed in the mid 1990s and now a supermarket

At one time there was FB and Yahoo groups for the H&BT, about 12.6 miles of the route are now used for a trail  railstotrailsofbedfordcounty.org



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/19 12:00 by warren1977.

---

---

Thanks for the info, link and photo.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

wabash2800 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks for the info, link and photo.
>
> Victor A. Baird
> http://www.erstwhilepublications.com
I added a c.2000 photo to show the difference in the town after 45 years of no RR.