Ron Morgan

The Wood Township Supervisors, meeting in their December session recently in the municipal building in Robertsdale, listened to a brief update about the Huntingdon County Hazard Mitigation Plan.

The multi-phase East Broad Top Railroad restoration project reached a milestone recently by extending the refurbished rails to the Route 994 road crossing, just north of the Southern Huntingdon County High School Complex.

Jonathan Smith, director of sales and marketing for the East Broad Top Railroad Foundation, left, and Henry Long Jr., EBT track foreman, appear at the southern end of recently completed

The nonprofit Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society conducted a full slate of business during its December session that also included reorganizational matters. The session took place in the Coal Miners Museum in Robertsdale.

Broad Top Area Honor Guard officers for the new year were elected during a recent meeting of the veterans’ organization held in the Captain Phillips Veterans of Foreign Wars Post

ROBERTSDALE — The nonprofit Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society conducted a full slate of business during its December session that also included reorganizational matters. The session took place

The history of the East Broad Top Railroad and its connections with Mount Union, coupled with the spirit of the holidays, helped draw visitors to a special open house over the weekend at the new headquarters of the EBT's Archives and Special Collections initiative in Mount Union.

Without the locomotive engineer, firemen and break man the transportation history of southern Huntingdon County and the Broad Top area could not have been written. Likewise, without the coal company, the coal miners and their families, the industrial heritage of the region would not have been possible.

Officers of the Broad Top Area Honor Guard were retained at the organization’s quarterly meeting held recently in the Saxton VFW Post. From left are: Elmer Weimert, commander; Ron Morgan, Adjutant; Jamie Jones, finance officer and Debbie Allen, chaplain.

Sometime back, the Echoes columnist wrote about the Sweet family of the Dudley area who were involved in the expansion of deep mining operations in the Carbon Township, Huntingdon County area of the Broad Top Coal Field. The saga centered around information provided by Billy Sweet of Claysburg and other data researched over the years by this historian.