Reading 2100 pics

Nice find...thanks.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

MAn if the new owners are NOT going to do anything with it, Maybe Jacobson would be interested and get it to Ohio!

Interesting to see how many details are different when compared to 2102.  I wonder how many are the result of maintenance over the years and how many are artifacts of the debaucherous oil conversion.

Wowak,

 Generally, the appearance of the engine and tender is fairly unchanged. The additional lights on the pilot and tender, FRA requirements now-a-days. The one below the headlight/above the number board is a strange addition. The necesary control changes in the cab do to the oil conversion. Removal of the stoker motor and screw for the conversion (last reported to still be in Canada???). The real oddity, the removal of the trailing truck booster engine. Did it fail at some point?

 I would be curious to know what engine the auxiliary tender is from(very nice looking Vanderbilt tender). And if it is just water support or fuel and water.

 

Thanks for the link toddstrick.

 

And if anyone else has more current information, please help update us.

 

Henry J

Thanks for the photo's.

I don't think the booster was on it when it was restored in Hagerstown. At the least, it wasn't operational. But bear with me. That was 20(!) years ago.

At the risk of making myself the #1 target for the hit list of Reading and Pennsy fans, I can appreciate what fine engines the T1s were in their element, but as for looks, they may be some of the most hideous locomotives I've seen.

 

DV

DV,

 While I was not originally a fan of Reading Motive Power, their engines have grown on me. The Western Maryland's Potomac's where also considered 'homely' as well. The D&H's K-62 4-8-4's, etc. etc. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 Consider this, the D&H under "Mr. Loree" built or rebuilt most of their locomotives to a very 'clean lined' appearance similiar to British locomotives after taking a trip there. Small cabs, 'semi-streamlined' capped stack. While not quite as small in the cab sizing, several of the Reading's locomotives display similiar, if not simpler clean lines.

 The T1's may have looked more 'muscular' if a little more plumbing showed or the jacketing had ended at the beginning of the smoke box. Who know's? 

 I am not offended. You are simply stating your view.

 

Henry J

While I haven't independently verified this, I have it on trustworthy word of a friend that when Ross Rowland bought 2100 as a parts source for 2101 (AFT-1), he took the booster engine for use on C&O 614.

I wonder if Mr. Rowland could answer this?

 

I was under the belief that when 2100 'moved away from "home"' she was complete. But your source is probably better than my memory.

 

Henry J