by Jason Nark, Philadelphia Inquirer
"ROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. — When the coal was mostly mined out of the mountains here, and cars and trucks began to haul people and parcels more than trains, the East Broad Top’s steam whistle didn’t echo through the valleys quite as much.
Then, in 1956, the locomotives stopped altogether and were sent to slumber in a padlocked roundhouse. A cavernous, steam-powered shop across the yard, a wonderland where leather belts spun giant wheels and steel was pounded into shape like Vulcan’s ancient forge, also went dormant, its bright red doors padlocked, too."