Throughout the years, the East Broad Top operated, built, and maintained its own freight cars. Early coal hoppers were wooden until the first steel cars arrived in 1913. In fact, the EBT operated the only fleet of steel narrow gauge coal hoppers. To this day, several other railroads who have purchased EBT hoppers in the past still operate their EBT cars for maintenance purposes. The East Broad Top was a modern railroad for its time.