The Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad was a standard-gauge coal hauler serving Huntingdon and Bedford Counties for almost 100 years.

Chartered in 1852 as the Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company, the railroad was designed to haul coal from the Broad Top-area north to a connection to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Huntingdon. The first trains operated between Huntingdon and Saxton in 1855, and the railroad expanded south to Mount Dallas (a few miles southwest of Everett) in 1863. From 1863 until 1954, these 44 miles of mainline would haul millions of tons of ore, coal, and iron as well as regular freight and passengers.

Several branchlines were constructed to the east of the mainline up the steep face of the Broad Top. Named primarily for the streams along which they ran, such as Shoups, Millers, Kimber and Longs Run, these branches featured numerous switchbacks, and (in some cases) grades approaching 6%.

The railroad stopped paying dividends on their stock in the 1920s and were in receivership by the 1940s. Passenger service, once plush enough to include Parlor car service, was reduced to a single train per day between Huntingdon and Bedford in the 1950s. The tiny train existed mainly to fulfill the Railway Post Office contract, and to carry milk to Supplee-Wills-Jones in Bedford.

With no money available for dieselization, the railroad remained true to steam until the very end. On March 14, 1954, the final H&BT train steamed northbound from Mount Dallas to Saxton. A group of Everett-area citizens purchased the southern-most 4 miles of the Huntingdon & Broad Top in order to service the local industries. This new railroad, the Everett Railroad Company, began service on March 16th of that year.