Dust jacket shows some wear at the spine and edge of front cover. It is enclosed in a plastic cover.
Pages of the book are clean.
From the dust jacket:
"The East Broad Top Railroad &
Coal Company was the last narrow gauge common carrier railroad in the
eastern United States. While it was abandoned in 1956 after 80 years of
service to the coal and iron industry, Eastie survives today to operate
excursion service over five miles of the oldest surviving active slim
gauge roadbed in the country."
"This, then, is a history of
the East Broad Top Railroad, from the events leading up to its
chartering in 1856 through its belated birth in 1871 and its
construction over the next several years. Also covered are the
development of the affiliated Rockhill Iron & Coal Company and the
Broad Top coal field. The text explains how long years of financial
default were ended when a local son named Robert S Seibert, pulled the
road up to prosperity and thoroughly rebuilt it before the long, and
final struggle with costs which rose even faster than the income
provided by the bustling steam trains."