MTH Reading Imperial

Always glad to see someone admiring the Reading

Closest thing to a semi-scale T-1 yet...

   Wow Jim !   That is one nice engine . Kind of changes my plans for Allentown . I remember them going by my house  on the Reading rambles in the sixties .  Tom

Jim - Don't know if you saw my post regarding this exact steamer earlier today.    I am having problems with it derailing going into O-31 curves.    Length of my drawbar may be a factor.   Could I impose upon you to measure the length of your drawbar?  

Thanks,   Jim near Harrisburg

Having grown up in Bethlehem, PA I got to see the 2101 in AFT colors in Bethlehem in 1976, then I saw it transitioned to Chessie Colors in the Saucon Creek Roundhouse.  I was in Reading when the 2102 came home and rode behind many ramble runs to Jim Thorpe and back.  Also visited the 2100 in Hagerstown Maryland during restoration in 1987. The T-1's have a special place in my heart. Additionally, I am only about an hour and a half from Steamtown, have made many visits to photpgraph 2124.

<<Jim - Don't know if you saw my post regarding this exact steamer earlier today.    I am having problems with it derailing going into O-31 curves.    Length of my drawbar may be a factor.   Could I impose upon you to measure the length of your drawbar?  

Thanks,   Jim near Harrisburg>>

JB - Just a hair longer than 2 & 1/2 inches.  I ran it on 36" for about 20 minutes to break in without a problem.  Hopes this helps. 

@Jim - Thanks for the measurement.   Your drawbar is shorter than mine and that is/was the problem.  Mine measured a hair over 2 3/4 inches.   The shorter one is "technically" 45mm. The one on my unit is 50mm. (MTH determines that length from the center of the holes on the drawbar.)     Mine is now fixed.

Glad to hear it, take care.

Jim