Thanks for uploading this! My great great granddad happened to work for the C&O as he was trying to apply a job during the Great Depression. So, this brings me a strong heritage to my family of the past.
Another hit clear out of the park! This was all done before I was born, so this footage is amazing. And oh my, I personally think that she looks the best in her Rambles colors. I know some people like the old black paint Scheme, but that's single yellow stripe, the white wall wheels, that to me just says speed and Grace. Had I have had the chance to have lived in the forties and fifties, I would have been glued to the courthouse parking lots to watch these beasts come and go from reading!
In the 40s and 50s those parking lots by the Court House weren't there, they were all occupied buildings. Downtown Reading became a rubble field in the late 60s and early 70s with the "urban renewal" fad. When they couldn't attract business to build, they built parking lots instead. It wasn't til the 80s that those vacant lots on Penn St. started to get built on, and that was only after they gave away the tax revenue for decades, which is one reason why Reading is so poor now.
@@fmnut oh! Well there you go. I was born in 84! My grandmother retired as head nurse of the ER at Community General. I think that was like 94 or 95. Right on the other side of the ER there was a little building where the ambulances were housed, and on the other side of that a small little Culvert that went into the yard. Then I guess I would have just sat there! Those are interesting facts my friend!
In addition to the Ross Rowland trips 2102 also ran into Philadelphia via the PRR's 30th St Station, Steam locomotives aren't normally permitted to run on electrified tracks used by Amtrak and SEPTA.
Love the Cass VW 2102 trips and I have the late Rich Carters CD he recorded of those trips excellent stuff. I only wish I knew somebody who remembered those trips well enough that knew what deep whistle she carried was from. It's one of the very few steamboat sounding whistles I like (which is two the Southern PS4 and the Illinois Central) and Bill Benson seems to have kept it on at other times. Believe he also put it on 2100 when that was first reborn in the late 1980s but not sure. Anyway thanks for sharing all this awesome 2102 stuff she is after all my favorite locomotive.
Wow! I just assumed that viaduct/trestle was long gone, or maybe a bike trail now. But, according to Wiki, it STILL is a commuter and NS freight line. VERY cool.
Great video with many shots I hadn't seen before. I hope Andy Mueller gets it running again soon. Supposedly it was going to be operational by 2017 but it hasn'thappened yet.
2102 never ran on the Kinzua bridge. The long trestle at 16:30 is the Moodna Viaduct on the former Erie main line near Cornwall NY. The other trestles later in the video are on the Pittsburgh & Shawmut.
I'm pretty sure your timeline for some of this is off by a year. 2102 was still in the South Akron, Ohio PRR roundhouse in the Spring of 1968, and made a Sunday morning test run from Akron to Hudson with the Firestone tank car in early August of that year. I know they ran at least one trip out of Chicago after that, because they suffered a derailment on a diamond and canceled a couple of Grand Trunk trips out of Durand scheduled after that. I was supposed to go on one of them. I also believe the WV Durbin Branch trips were in 1972, not 1971. In April of '71 Steam Tours ran the loco on two trips out of Akron, Ohio on the former AC&Y to Spencer, taking the engine lite to Wellington to turn it on the wye there. I was on one of those trips. They were like a week before the start of Amtrak. Now I was 13, and remember there was a lot of conversation on the trip about the beginning of Amtrak.
The 1967 date for the Grand Trunk trip came from the film source. So if it's wrong, then the fellow who shot it got it wrong. The Ronceverte-Durbin trip shown in the film is mine, and it is definitely 1971 because I also have slides from that trip that are so dated.
@@fmnut OK, you are a direct source. I was a kid then, remembering conversations from other adult fans I was around. In the Winter of 1972 2102 ran trips on the WM out of Baltimore (I knew someone who shot movies of the trips), so if it was in WV in Summer/Fall of '71, it didn't stay there. I thought it went the other way, from the Baltimore area to WV, obviously it went from WV to Baltimore.
@@paulw.woodring7304 Here's a rundown of 2102's activity in 1972: Feb 5 and 6, Baltimore-Hagerstown via WM using Dutch Line. Feb 26 and 27, E'port to Bethlehem farewell to CNJ in PA trips. May 6 and 7, Phila.-Harrisburg on RDG recreating Iron Horse Rambles. May 27 thru 29, E'port to Washington DC on 27th, tour Transpo 72 on the 28th, and return to E'port on the 29th via CNJ/RDG/B&O. Some sources say short trips DC to Baltimore were run on the 28th but I have been unable to confirm this. Billed as the "Royal Blue Limited". Then storage at Lebanon, NJ until early '73 when it went to the D&H for cosmetic work and the Anniversary trips.
The original D&H 302 was built in 1943 by Alco as one of a group of fifteen. It served the road until dieselization in the early 1950's. All were retired and scrapped by 1952-1953.
Thank you for posting this, I know I'll be watching this more than once!
Thanks for uploading this! My great great granddad happened to work for the C&O as he was trying to apply a job during the Great Depression. So, this brings me a strong heritage to my family of the past.
Great video, as always!
Another hit clear out of the park! This was all done before I was born, so this footage is amazing. And oh my, I personally think that she looks the best in her Rambles colors. I know some people like the old black paint Scheme, but that's single yellow stripe, the white wall wheels, that to me just says speed and Grace. Had I have had the chance to have lived in the forties and fifties, I would have been glued to the courthouse parking lots to watch these beasts come and go from reading!
In the 40s and 50s those parking lots by the Court House weren't there, they were all occupied buildings. Downtown Reading became a rubble field in the late 60s and early 70s with the "urban renewal" fad. When they couldn't attract business to build, they built parking lots instead. It wasn't til the 80s that those vacant lots on Penn St. started to get built on, and that was only after they gave away the tax revenue for decades, which is one reason why Reading is so poor now.
@@fmnut oh! Well there you go. I was born in 84! My grandmother retired as head nurse of the ER at Community General. I think that was like 94 or 95. Right on the other side of the ER there was a little building where the ambulances were housed, and on the other side of that a small little Culvert that went into the yard. Then I guess I would have just sat there! Those are interesting facts my friend!
Awesome video thanks for sharing.
In addition to the Ross Rowland trips 2102 also ran into Philadelphia via the PRR's 30th St Station, Steam locomotives aren't normally permitted to run on electrified tracks used by Amtrak and SEPTA.
Your Pittsburg and Shawmut Footage is killer. Extremely rare footage and in great shape. Thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Thanks. Red Moser was very meticulous with his films and they weren't shown very often.
Love the Cass VW 2102 trips and I have the late Rich Carters CD he recorded of those trips excellent stuff. I only wish I knew somebody who remembered those trips well enough that knew what deep whistle she carried was from. It's one of the very few steamboat sounding whistles I like (which is two the Southern PS4 and the Illinois Central) and Bill Benson seems to have kept it on at other times. Believe he also put it on 2100 when that was first reborn in the late 1980s but not sure. Anyway thanks for sharing all this awesome 2102 stuff she is after all my favorite locomotive.
Honestly, 2102 looked really good for a D&H Northern, it generally looked great for the engine, I think it fit in just perfectly
34:29 I think that's the only clip where the 425 went really fast.
Wow! I just assumed that viaduct/trestle was long gone, or maybe a bike trail now. But, according to Wiki, it STILL is a commuter and NS freight line. VERY cool.
@Hapa Nice Day I think he means the Moodna Viaduct on the former Erie main line.
Great video with many shots I hadn't seen before. I hope Andy Mueller gets it running again soon. Supposedly it was going to be operational by 2017 but it hasn'thappened yet.
@@kevincleary4273 R&N have a UA-cam channel - here's the latest - ua-cam.com/video/RbV16Xl5XoA/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo
Getting close :D - ua-cam.com/video/RbV16Xl5XoA/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo
Loved the Monongahela Railway footage. I don't think I've ever seen video from that.
I bet you're excited to see this engine back in action, probably next year if not earlier this year.
Very cool 👍
This looks a lot like the VHS TAPE that I used to have of the Complete 2102.
Love the music you used fm
Is that the Reading 2102, on the kinzu bridge, on a former Erie line?
2102 never ran on the Kinzua bridge. The long trestle at 16:30 is the Moodna Viaduct on the former Erie main line near Cornwall NY. The other trestles later in the video are on the Pittsburgh & Shawmut.
@@fmnut okay, thank you for the info. A Reading fan since 1969, was only 4yrs old. Philly VIK
It’s not a common for a tourist railroad to. Have a big locomotive like a 4-8-4 run on a branch line
I'm pretty sure your timeline for some of this is off by a year. 2102 was still in the South Akron, Ohio PRR roundhouse in the Spring of 1968, and made a Sunday morning test run from Akron to Hudson with the Firestone tank car in early August of that year. I know they ran at least one trip out of Chicago after that, because they suffered a derailment on a diamond and canceled a couple of Grand Trunk trips out of Durand scheduled after that. I was supposed to go on one of them. I also believe the WV Durbin Branch trips were in 1972, not 1971. In April of '71 Steam Tours ran the loco on two trips out of Akron, Ohio on the former AC&Y to Spencer, taking the engine lite to Wellington to turn it on the wye there. I was on one of those trips. They were like a week before the start of Amtrak. Now I was 13, and remember there was a lot of conversation on the trip about the beginning of Amtrak.
The 1967 date for the Grand Trunk trip came from the film source. So if it's wrong, then the fellow who shot it got it wrong. The Ronceverte-Durbin trip shown in the film is mine, and it is definitely 1971 because I also have slides from that trip that are so dated.
@@fmnut OK, you are a direct source. I was a kid then, remembering conversations from other adult fans I was around. In the Winter of 1972 2102 ran trips on the WM out of Baltimore (I knew someone who shot movies of the trips), so if it was in WV in Summer/Fall of '71, it didn't stay there. I thought it went the other way, from the Baltimore area to WV, obviously it went from WV to Baltimore.
@@paulw.woodring7304 that's correct. I'm working on a new video just covering 2102 in 1972. It was very active in that year.
@@fmnut It also ran a trip or two from Philly to DC somewhere in that time period, then did the D&H trips in '73, right?
@@paulw.woodring7304 Here's a rundown of 2102's activity in 1972: Feb 5 and 6, Baltimore-Hagerstown via WM using Dutch Line. Feb 26 and 27, E'port to Bethlehem farewell to CNJ in PA trips. May 6 and 7, Phila.-Harrisburg on RDG recreating Iron Horse Rambles. May 27 thru 29, E'port to Washington DC on 27th, tour Transpo 72 on the 28th, and return to E'port on the 29th via CNJ/RDG/B&O. Some sources say short trips DC to Baltimore were run on the 28th but I have been unable to confirm this. Billed as the "Royal Blue Limited". Then storage at Lebanon, NJ until early '73 when it went to the D&H for cosmetic work and the Anniversary trips.
2102 will return to steam again soon.
34:38 I love this scene 👍
too bad their is no video of the 1971 Akron Canton and Youngstown RR trip
Whatever happened to D&H 302?
Read the caption at 36:26 in the video. The cosmetic changes were removed and it was numbered back to 2102.
The original D&H 302 was built in 1943 by Alco as one of a group of fifteen. It served the road until dieselization in the early 1950's. All were retired and scrapped by 1952-1953.