Reading & Northern 2102 RETURNS!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Reading & Northern T1 #2102 Steam Locomotive Returns to Service on the Reading and Northern Railroad. the Reading and Northern 2102 is scheduled to pull freight from Reading Outer Station in Reading, PA north to an unknown location on the Reading and Northern Railroad. if I have any videos of the Reading and Northern Railroad #2102 pulling freight cars, it will be posted on right here on the Railfan Rowan channel! #readingandnorthern #2102
00:00 - Intro
02:02 - First Public Moves of 2102
03:56 - 2102 Coupling Up to Consist
07:39 - Mainline Shove - 2102
09:47 - 2102 Arriving at Reading Outer Station
11:07 - Chatting with the Painters of 2102
12:34 - 2102 Getting Weighed
15:05 - Finale at Port Clinton
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Oh wow, I didn't realize you were out! Good coverage, yes it's almost impossible to chase a train up Route 61 with all the lines, best to pick a spot and wait.
Thank you, yes, and not only that, this was my first time visiting this territory... Unfortunately I miscalculated my return trip :/ I was literally the last one back lol. Good to see that you're out shooting also! Heading over to watch yours now! :)
I’d like to add to that restoration list FEC 148
Will be there Saturday for it excursion
Totally awesome,anytime a steam locomotive is restored just gives me chills.
I live in NZ, and my first ever exposure to American steam engines was a documentary on the old Blue Mountain and Reading railway where it featured 425 and 2102 heavily. Seeing that 425 had been restored was heartwarming and was even more excited to hear that 2102 was on her way to being restored as well. She looks as beautiful as she did in that old VHS documentary I had. What a phenomenal restoration work
That whistle gives me the chills.
These Behemoths are Steel Giants. Nothing is more Interesting than History on the Railroad.🚂 ALL Aboard! Thanks Rowan! 👍
You're welcome Ken!
It's always a great day when Rowan uploads a new video, particularly when it's the first run of a steam locomotive like Reading & Northern 2102 back in service! -AZRails
It's good to see any steam 🚂 put back into service
The way that whistle echoes through the hills is almost haunting. It's beautiful.
I agree! Thanks for watching!
What a beauty. Thanks for sharing Rowan!
Nothing sounds better than a steam whistle. They all have their own unique sound so you can definitely tell them apart.
This one has a one of a kind sound that will be with her from now on.
Thanks for standing in the rain and bringing us another great video.
God Bless and take care.
Agreed!! Thank you for checking it out!
It sounds like some of the European steam locomotive whistles, except for the British ones that sound like a toy locomotive.
Yet another great video Rowan! In 1978 I lived in a high rise apartment in Silver Spring, MD. We had a great southern view that took in the B&O station, and a wide vista of Washington DC's skyline. One Saturday morning eating breakfast I noticed a fire near Capitol Hill. I kept an eye the smoke only to realize the fire's black smoke was moving! It turns out the fire was the magnificent 2102 pulling into Silver Spring with about 20 coaches, to pick up riders on an excursion to Cumberland. Well it was too late to catch a ride, but I was waiting in the station when this beautiful beast returned that evening. These were sights and sounds from 44 years ago, but well remembered. Long may you run old Northern!
Incredible imagery, thanks for the story!
Dreaming..... Annual weekend Rambles between Harrisburg and Hagerstown with 2102 and 1309 alternating starting location from Saturday to Sunday? Thanks for everyone's toil and help in both organizations for their beautiful restorations.
Always a treat to watch a Rowan video. Even more so when it features two passenger cars that used to be extensively used in the original Southern/NS Steam Program. Both the round ended observation in the background when you were talking to those paint crew guys at Reading Outer Station and the open air heavyweight car in the background at 15:18 were used on many, MANY excursions for the original Steam Program. Round end observation is the Mardi Gras, and the heavyweight is the Lookout Mountain.
In a word....... Beautiful !!! 2102 is easily up there with UP 4014, 844 and N&W 611, she is a fantastically looking machine, well done to those two boys (the paintjob looks brilliant), and everyone else who restored her. Another great video Rowan, much love from Down Under mate, take care, and the same to your family too. Oh, by the way, did you manage to get a drone, looks like you did at the end? And yes, the new Intro and Outro is great too. Cheers.
Thanks JJ, and yes that drone does belong to me now! Yay!!
At the throttle of the locomotive is Chairman, Owner, and CEO Andy Muller Jr. at 3:47. He was the engineer for the engine’s first test run. I still have to meet that guy someday.
That paint job is immaculate, from an automotive painter that is so impressive. That black looks dripping wet its so glossy, I can't imagine how many hours they spent cutting and buffing this
Love that song beautiful train horn sound good My friend car caboose
It's always exciting to see another steam locomotive restored!
Absolutely a beautifully done restoration of a great steam locomotive.! It is a wonderful example of an era when steam was king.
THANK YOU so much for sharing this. I did not know 2102 was so close to finished!!!! I rode behind 2102 in the 1970's on the C&O Greenbrier branch from Ronceverte to Durbin and back. After the train was turned at Durbin we headed south. Between Durbin and Cass the front truck of the tender slipped between the rails. We were about 45 minutes getting things right, not long really. 2102 looks FANTASTIC and I am thankful to you. The Greenbrier branch from Ronceverte to Cass is now history........so seeing her run again is great!!!! THANKS!
Rode Ronceverte to Cass, got off at Cass instead of going to Durbin. Stayed at the General Lewis, back then it was affordable. What a great trip it was!
@@SteamCrane I remember that people had that option. But I'd been to Cass many times so stayed on 2102. Those were great times.
Rowan, I am not a fan of steam, but your presentation in this vid, and the work of the volunteers, has totally changed my view. Thank you all.
You're more than welcome Chris, thanks for watching!
What a magnificent machine! That whistle is just incredible! Very exciting to see her return to the road!
Check out my comment above in the comments section about the steam whistle!
It’s amazing that 2102 is back up and running, and it won’t be long until her sister, 2100, will be back up to steam as well
Its really great to have RBMN 2102 back in service. Even though the other steam engine they have # 425, its cool to have another great steam engine back. I've railfanned the RBMN for years now as they are about 5 minutes from my home.. can't wait to catch the 2102 Leading the NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) A daily freight from North Reading Pennsylvania to Pittston Pennsylvania with a return trip going to North Reading. Catching NRFF in general is great.
Top notch Rowan. The finest what I would call "traditional style" American steam locomotive I have ever seen. An incredible restoration, it looks stunning. For me, many will not agree I am sure, but this is way above cigar shaped locos like 611. Absolutely cannot wait for the next update on this superb locomotive. Congratulations on this Rowan, I always look forward to your productions. Many thanks
I heard stories and rumors, but I never thought I would see the day when the Iconic Reading and Northern T1 2102 would be under her own power in the modern era. Man, there are sure a ton of steam locomotives being brought back from the dead and returned to services. I really hope it stays this way at least throughout my lifetime and the lifetimes of many future generations to come. ^w^
It's my understanding Reading Blue Mountain & Northern has done so well with his passenger operations it was decided restoring 2102 would be well worth the investment.
We still have a PRR K4 and another T1 to look forward to
@@vp.7002 Is the K4 being worked on? I know the guys in Ohio are making progress with 2100.
@@1940limited yep as we speak 1361 is being restored to operation
@@vp.7002 Be patient though. 1361 will live again but it needs one hell of a lot of work.
It's cool seeing my favorite locomotive return to service
Welcome Back, You Awesome Choo-Choo-Train. :-D
Great to see the Reading rr 2102 back in operation, there are 4 class T1 locomotives left in existence & now one example is back in service. Later on this year hopefully the 2100 will see operation after it's rebuild has been completed.
That Loco is just amazing. what a fantastic piece of engineering. 👍
Man that whistle gives me goosebumps!! One of the most beautiful sounds you will ever hear. Amazing video Rowan.
Huuuooooooh!!! That whistle though!!! Wow!!.....like a ghost train....just......uuuuh!! So cool!!! So cool! Aaaand what a beauty of a steam Loco!! Its amazing seeing more an more steam locomotives being rebuilt an comin back to life like this one here!
Rather haunting at times but it is beautiful!
Reading and Northern is a great railroad. They actually care about us railfans. When I went there I got a shop tour, a cab ride, and a number board all for free! I got to see 2102 in its restoration process. I am planning on seeing it during the iron horse rambles. Also, I heard that they will probably restore 225 next!
I'm not getting hopes up for any more restoration projects for awhile but it's very possible! Love how chill this railroad is!
2102: It feels great to be alive again. 😊
Good to still see that steam locomotives are still around!
OMG, I can't believe I missed this! She's beautiful! And that whistle echoing through the valleys is awesome. Thanks for catching it and sharing.
Def need to pay a visit!
That fall color train will be one helluva ride this fall
Hello Rowan, was a great fun 🤩 Live session. Love the new Intro & Outro. The content of this video is excellent, exciting with exceptional editing. Well done 👍 my friend!
Thank you as always my Australian friend!!
Nice job Rowan👌
I’m coming all the way from northern Georgia (Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum member. Really want to see Lookout Mountain. Wish it had gone to the TVRM instead of the RBMN to reunite it with Man O’ War, 4501, 630, and some other pieces of the Southern Steam Program Excursion consist.) in August to ride behind 2102, along with hitting up Steamtown, Strasburg, and Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
It is so cool to see the mighty legend Reading T1 is riding the rails that Reading Freight Hooter is music to my ears Bro
All I can say is " Welcome Back, mighty legend Reading T1 2102".
After 30 years, the legend T1 is back on home track
She is a legend of the legend of the Reading Lines.
🤘🎸🤘 Keep on Rockin Rockstar Bro 🤘🎸🤘
Matthew
OMG. This is so amazing. I’m literally crying because it looks and sounds so beautiful! I remember riding one out of Kempton many years ago when my son was a tyke. He is now in his 50’s. Thank you for the memories!
You're so welcome! Glad I could help!
Sweeeeet lawd! The echo from that glorious whistle bouncing off the hills of Pennsylvania gave me the goosies! Well done Rowan...as usual.
Thanks 2BR for the comment!
One more comment - the scene of 2102 pulling an excursion at 1:00 was in 1985 on the ex-CNJ RR in Lehigh Gap, near Palmerton, PA. I was on that train!! Along with my fellow railfan and long time friend Harris Tower. This was an excursion from Reading to Allentown - Jim Thorpe via Conrail. We arrived at Jim Thorpe hours late due to 2102 derailing on the wye at Hellertown, and even later when the boiler foamed due to water taken on at Lehighton (in emergency due to running late). The train stopped in Emmaus around 12:00AM. Conrail sent a rescue set of diesels that got us back to reading around 5AM. It was quite a trip!!
Wow that's certainly an interesting trip!! Thanks so much for sharing that history!
Absolutely amazing! Hopefully I'll be able to get over there and see it for myself. Great video by the way!👍
C'mon down!!
WOW another great video, Rowan. It always amazes me to think of the all the ingenuity that went in to building any steam locomotive! I like seeing N&W 611 traveling the rails nearby and hope to again soon! Thanks so much for sharing this video along with your time and effort to get the best shots available!
I remember as a kid riding from Rochester NY to Syracuse NY on a passenger train pulled by a steam engine. Yup, it was in revenue service for the New York Central System. Got to ride free, cause my Dad worked for the NYCS!! Loved it then and also now!
Thanks as always Alan!
It’s amazing to see all of these new restored steam engines coming back!
What a beautiful, living thing she is!
Agreed!
I Am So Happy
Rowan man you have got to be one of the luckiest railfans ever I mean getting to 1309 and 2102 on there test runs that’s just amazing
Thanks man!
An old friend, spent many hours with her back in the 1980's. Rode Ronceverte to Cass, many trips around Ohio + PA. Erie RR Kent OH to Greenville PA(?), the Pitsburgh + Shawmut trips, Horseshoe with 4070. R+N guys did a fantastic job!
Exactly 1000th like!
Yay!! Thanks for the like!
Wow. I love classic steam trains. This one looks pretty old school 😊👍
Amesome video and great phototarghy
This is so much FUN !
That's awesome how that whistle sounds in the cool morning !
The first engine to pull the Iron Horse Rambles was 2124.
Awesome ! Big Bad Beautiful !
Cool see T1 back in service
WOW. Awesome machine and that horn is uh...different. Just try to imagine when these things were the norm and all over the place. What a time that must have been.
This is the place to relive history then, that's for certain
The whistle is reading freight train. The tone travels further, louder than most other whistle tones.
Wonderful video of 2102 Rowan, glad you got to see her come alive again!!
Thanks David!
Thanks for sharing, it was really awesome. What a beautiful Train 🚆
Excellent video! Glad I could help you out with it. It was nice meeting you!
Thank so much Jake, you're awesome, thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us, it has been a huge success already! Thanks again, and see ya soon!
I like the new intro and outro. Awesome locomotive
Thank you!!
That's an awesome looking loco. Nice to see and hear some of the folks who worked on it. Thanks RR.
Beautiful locomotive! Love how the whistle echos through the hills.
Yesssss same!!
And that is what 2102 had, back in Freight service days in the 1940s & 50s.
Pretty much standard whistle on Reading Freight Steam Engines.
Their Passenger Engines had the
famous Reading 6-chime, which
we’ll get to hear later this year.
Looking forward to seeing other Steam locomotive videos you make in the future
Hopefully SOOOO, you always support me Jack!
Wish they would do something with reading 2101. Still very cool that her sister is back in action.
Thanks for posting this, it's been a pretty amazing decade so far for the return of a lot of big steam. I love these home cooked T-1 engines, it's hard to believe they started life as Wooten firebox 2-8-0s. Reading & Northern did an amazing job with this restoration.
Yeee haw!!
Loving that whistle!
Awesome, I love Steam. it’s So Cool that there’s Still those Locos Today, and Sorry I’m Late Commenting on This Video.
You're cgood, thanks for watching!!
@@RailfanRowan no problem 😉
That is so dang cool, I envy Railfan Rowan
The engine and whistle knocked me out of the ball park. What a beautiful engine. Great video rowan
This is gonna be GREAT !
Congratulations to all 👍
To think, her cab was just being done. Welcome back 2102
It's amazing what And Mueller has done. That look like him behind the throttle. The whistle sounds the same as it did when he pulled the coal train in 1991.
He and his team have done a fabulous job on this locomotive and their railroad in general!
I’m glad it’s back
Kudos to all that brought her back to life. She is one beautiful train.
She’s back!
One of her sisters, Reading 2100, is also being restored in Cleveland, Ohio. She'll be done between the end of this year and 2024. She'll most likely run next year.
i think its safe to say the rambles are back baby
Yayyyy!!!
Love that steamer
6:02 sounded like one of those indian call flutes. That gave me goosebumps
What a fantastic rebirth of a beautiful locomotive. Looks like the day it was built
Rowan,your usual excellent editorial and PROFESSIONAL camera work,is really showing up!! Having 2102,in steam,is really icing on the cake 🎂! The weather co-operated because there was nice even lighting,and it showed off the paint,and running gear,to perfection!! Cloudy weather under some circumstances helps,rather than hinders photography 📸!! Great work,and did you do some uprating on your equipment,there is a real jump in the definition department!! Thanks again for your determination and diligence!! THANK YOU 😇!!
Thank you as always Robert, you're awesome man. To God Be The Glory!!
It was so cool to see her running. More steam videos Rowan.
Yes please l!!
Welcome Back
I’m excited now first time seeing a reading t-1 4-8-4 in action I have an antique Union Pacific Railroad spike from 1937 and it’s a 7 inch long hairpin but Union Pacific Railroad used them to hold the rails down
It looks amazing, the body work is spotless. Thanks for sharing and greetings from Europe.
Excellent... glad to see this... and... BEE NOKS Alright!
We'll BEE seeing you!
Thank you Rowan for another great video especially having steam in it. Still haven’t gone rail Fanning since we moved to our new home in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but we’re finally getting things unpacked and put away and organize so I can finally start doing some rail Fanning, But to go rail fanning I have to drive over a hour north of me to see Norfolk Southern or CSX main lines. Oh well that’s life in the big city. Anyway take care Rowan good to hear you on UA-cam. 🤓
Thanks Bill, I appreciate your support!
Outstanding video! Very well put together and edited Rowan!
In the thumbnail it looks like the POLAR EXPRESS and glad to see its back
I know, right??
Good to see you back
From Australia
Reading t1 was actually a 2-8-0 consolidation and the reading lines rebuilt the 2-8-0 to 4-8-4 t1s in 1943
Great job on the vid! I bought a ticket to ride for July 2nd. I can't wait. The paint job is gorgeous!.( Riding the Western Maryland 1309 on the 1st). It looks very similar to Milwaukee Road 261. Not a big fan of the shrill whistle, I loved the Frisco 1522's throaty, mournful whistle . I helped restore that ole 1926 Mountain type in 1988. Kenton Kloos, Affton Mo.
Thanks for being there Rowan and taking us along! That was a fast 16 minutes!
I don't like to use this overused word often, but 2102 is an awesome machine. I knew it'd be back someday, it's just too good to be kept in a shed forever. Kind of like what the late Jim Boyd said when he was asked if a Big Boy would ever run again:
"Of course! Why? Like Mount Everest, because it's there!"
Interesting, but the general look of the locomotive reminds me very much of the unstreamlined Class J's the Norfolk & Western built during World War Two. Check out a photo of one and see what you think.
Thanks Wayne!! Because this there!!!
WOW! that says it all! Terrific video, thank you!
Thanks for Watching Steve!
wow what a beauty
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Great video Rowan and its amazing to think of the man power and ingenuity that went in to building a steam locomotive! They're definitely a work of art and quite a sight to see traveling the rails! Thanks again for sharing your videos along with your time and effort to get the BEST FOOTAGE!
Thanks so much for the compliment Shawn!
MAGNIFICENT!!!!!