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No. 15, a 2-8-2 type, was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1914 for a narrow gauge shortline, the East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co., which dates hack to 1871. The company's narrow-gauge engines could not travel on standard gauge tracks, so Baldwin delivered them over the Pennsyhania Railroad on specially-built flatcars. No. 15 served continuously until the line was abandoned in 1956. She went back into service in 1960 when part of the line was revived as a tourist attraction. East Broad Top is one of the very few active narrow-gauge carriers in America today. Owning eight Baldwin steam engines, it operates steam-powered passenger trains regularly during the summer and early fall out of Rockhill Furnace (Orhisonia), Pennsylvania, where she is pictured here on a tourist run.
PHOTO BY JACK EMERICK
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