History's a Blast is both a title and a statement. We enjoy history, and this channel is about our travel experiences on day trips and long camping journeys where we visit historical sites and museums around the United States and, we are hopeful, someday Canada. Come along for the ride ...
Having been a reenacter for over 30 years doing American British and German. This event is on one of my bucket list. Yes, but sadly, it is far too exclusive and you have to get an invite to attend.
These are great for occasional trips but as a fulltime RVer I've had three of these fail. I don't think any of them lasted more than a year. Again, that's running 24/7 so your mileage may vary.
Just to note - if anyone is heading through New Bremen during the week and would like to visit the Historic Museum, please contact a board member and let us know when you're coming and someone will meet you there and take you through the museums.
As a central Ohio resident who loves day trips, I appreciate you adding places to visit to my list. I’ve visited a number of locks and remnants of the Ohio to Erie Canal, but none of the Miami to Erie (yet), despite having grown up closer to it. Looking forward to seeing other places you’ve visited! And just FYI, Piqua is pronounced PICK-wuh. Keep up the good work!
Newport News Park is very close to Mariner's Museum, Wmsbg and Yorktown. $40 per night water and electric. Stay there while touring sites on the Peninsula and you miss the misery of the HRBT.
Edited: thanks for the advice, but reviews of Newport News park campground are consistently negative as far as the cleanliness & condition of toilets & showers. Maybe OK for an overnight stay, but wouldn’t risk it for an extended stay like we had on this trip.
I visited the battlefield 12 years ago and was very disappointed of how they built a baseball diamond on such hollow ground. Could never understand why they moved the route of the river, For a for a ballpark?
Off topic,,,,from The Refuge on Roanoke island....trip home without tow mode resulted in the same mpg as the trip down with it. The elevation change was around 600'. I was disappointed but oh well. It is what it is.
Almost all of the sites are separated by woods several yards deep. My memory isn’t good enough to recall how deep, but the sites are very private - but not far enough apart that a Bozo with an open frame generator two or three sites away wouldn’t ruin the experience, so “don’t be that guy.” 😐
We bought our camper in april 2021 and this was the 1st place we stayed! We booked memorial weekend on one of the electric only sites that year. We fell inlove with the camp and returned in 2022 for a 3 day stay,and again for a week! Would love a seasonal spot there but they have an extremely long waiting list. Hope to return again soon! A great place for families too as they always have kids activities planned.
Wow, talk about a blast from the past. I think I know you; you introduced me to the EBT in the early 90's. We drove up together from DC and you gave me a tour of the entire RR. Most Excellent video, very informative and well presented! Bob Whitney My RU-vid channel; Whitcraft
Would love to see M and E canal end at Cincy. The east- west turn was called Over the Rhine by the many Germans who lived along it. It was long ago filled in to become Central Parkway. It then turns sout to head toward the Ohio River., again filled in to be o e Seligson Ave. no canal remains remains to be found, amazingly.
Good catch. It’s been 4 years since we published this, but IIRC we didn’t know that at the time. We’ve also stayed at Guilford Lake SP on the other side of OH & have learned that it, too, was a reservoir but for the O&E Canal.
My mom and her side of the family came from robertsdale joller and mt union. Mom was born in a house on east st. My great grandfather and great uncle and grandfather worked minea in robertsdale n joller. Metz, Adams, Taylors, Shaffnern and Zdrosky was moms side.
My Great-Uncle/Step-Great-Grandfather from a number of generations back was part of the 154th, the "Hardtack" Regiment. Newell Burch. He was captured during the battle, interred first at Belle Isle, VA, and then was at Andersonville from the day it opened until it was liberated. Based on the information I have, he was the longest held Union POW during that war.
Everything in there is priceless. How many tools like that, all over the country, got melted down, and went into a NashRambler, that wound up shoring up a riverbank somewhere, or some kids Lost in Space lunchbox, that wound up in a landfill.
In 2017, they were strip mining in Alvan! Does anybody know whether that is still going on? If so, what is the quality of the coal and is it being used by the railroad? I learned all this from a local resident up there?
@@historysablast The reason I asked is that someone who is knowledgeable suggested that the TT that failed was a Sellers turntable which had a weak link holding the for arms. Were there three TTs including the present TT?
@@historysablast I think the current TT is steel but I may be wrong. Your history project is outstanding to say the least. I've been to the EBT once back in the 1980s and the shops were the most interesting. Thanks for your efforts!
@@cattaraugustonawanda4426 Pg. 63 in R&K _East Broad Top_ has the picture I mentioned; the caption says it was a steel, not an iron, turntable, that appears to be the Sellers design (round holes in the girders). That turntable replaced the one that collapsed, per the text in R&K. The incident was not recorded in the Directors minutes. And there WERE three, including the present one, purchased 2nd hand - originally on the NYC. FYI, originally there were three turntables on the EBT - one (possibly apocryphal) shown on a sketch map of Mt. Union yard in the 1873 county atlas; one at Rockhill (Orbisonia); and one at Robertsdale, which was documented in the Directors' minutes as being replaced with the wye when No. 7 (purchased 1881) proved too long for it.
@cattaraugustonawanda4426 You are correct; it is standard gauge width, former NYC, set up for compressed air power, but as far as is known it has always been an "Armstrong" turntable on the EBT.
Oh, there are other folks covering that, too, and more current than we’ve been. Lot’s of drone shots, photos of the crew in action. Check out Fans of the East Broad Top on FB. We’ll get a video up whenever we can get over that way. Thanks for your interest.
A very awesome look into the shops history, i get up there occasionally and i always wanna learn more and more about the EBT. Thank you for this video sir
I appreciate all the hard work that you have put into this video. I also thank you for all the other video's that you make but my favourite one's are about the EBT. I don't think I will ever get a chance to visit in person and so your work on the EBT is very helpful .
You need a new intro for this, when I saw the East Broad Top railroad pop up, I thought YT had skipped me to the next video automatically, so I restarted it and the same thing happened. I don't like this, and you lost me as a subscriber. Good Luck.
History's a Blast is not the EBT news channel. If that's all you're interested in, you're certain to be disappointed by this channel. If it's the subject of this video you don't like, buh bye.
