Ebt Broad Gauge President

At Rockhill Furnace, the East Broad Top built its renamed Orbisonia station and office building in 1906, one of the improvements made under Robert S. Seibert. Seibert came back to the railroad in June of 1903, toured the line with the management, and by October had been appointed president and general manager of both the East Broad Top and the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company. Welch's 1909 history of Mount Union says he had been the company's first ticket agent at Mount Union, in 1874.

Seibert ordered the entire road relaid with heavier rail between 1904 and 1909 and the roadbed rebuilt with cinder ballast and oak ties, and in the autumn of 1904 he contracted with the American Bridge Company to replace the largest bridge on the line, the Pogue trestle. Welch, writing while Seibert was still president, said the road had been brought into an almost perfect state, with track in as good condition as the Pennsylvania's.

On September 9, 1904, the Mount Union Times wrote: "the East Broad Top is a narrow-gauge railroad with a broad-gauge president." His tenure ended in 1913.

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