Reading 2100 to be restored again?

Yes it was done by Kelly

A longer, more detailed video will go up tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to this. Hopefully it will join NS's 21st Century Steam Program when complete. Now, what would be really cool (but I don't think would happen) would be to renumber it 2101, paint it up in Chessie Steam Special colors and run over Sandpatch and 17 Mile Grade.

Here is the full-length version.  In this you will see 2100's past, present and what is in her future.

As a big fan of the T-1's and the Reading railroad, I welcome this deeply to #2100.

2101 in action.

In this video, at the 5 and 11 second mark where the steady chuffs turn to a rapid rat-tat-tat, is that the locomotive loosing traction on the rail surface for a second?

The word is "losing" (only one "o") and yes, the drivers slipped at those points. The engineer reacted VERY quickly to close the throttle, stop the slip and get the throttle open again. Ross Rowland was probably at the throttle.

Cool, I'm glad I upgraded my Lionel 2100, it's certainly a keeper!

Well, I have nothing against the Reading T-1's, have some great memories of the Iron Horse Rambles, BUT the only thing that will turn me on is the Pennsy K4!

Don't count on that happening before the 2100 gets restored and becomes operational.

Elephants will fly before the K4 ever steams. Pa's disgrace.

Good one!  However, on a more realistic note, the Union Pacific Railroad may very well have an operable steam locomotive before the 1361 operates.

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but what happened to 1361? Was it Conrail, or a group who removed it from Horseshoe Curve back in the 80's? It was quickly back up and running, but then has been taken apart to be restored forever. Is it a lack of money all these years that keeps it in the shop?

mismanagement.......now excuse me while I head to the storm cellar.....

Gonna take some redesign work to get the K4s up and running at it's full 205 PSI.  How much of this work has been done is unknown to yours truly....if any of it.  Boiler /firebox is not stayed, or configured to meet today's requirements.  Once this is done, collect your funding and start putting this back together.  I figure1361 and PRR 5550 will be out of the oven around the same time !  Getting a RDG T1 running would almost certainly be simpler and cheaper than 1361...and a more potent chooch.

Getting back on topic here does anybody know where the 2100 is right now?

Sort of, yes. Last I heard she was on a special flat car on BNSF, in Northtown Yard, Minnesota.

in rockport yard[cleveland] today approx 1:15p-jim

2100 arrived at her new home in Cleveland, OH.

Images courtesy of the American Steam Railroad Preservation Association Facebook page ...

Isn't this the same outfit that owns Frisco 1352? 

Wonder what happened with that?

Rusty

Yes, they have 1352.  They are taking care of it, but are trying to raise money to ship it to Cleveland, and, of course, get it running also.

As of today the 2100 is back on solid rail ...

Good news. Now if they would paint over that terrible red stripe !!

http://trn.trains.com/news/new...lots-of-machine-work

Wahoo!

Not to mention about $250,000 too.

Very nice.Cant wait to see it full of steam

RDG 2100 had to be lifted by crane in order to place it on the flatcar, out in Washington state, for shipment to Ohio. She than had to be lifted off the flatcar and placed back on the rails at the roundhouse in Cleveland area, for inspection and re-restoration.

Glad to hear that 2100 will be getting back to steam, even if it means that I probably will never get to see her steaming again.

I saw and rode behind 2100 during her ill-fated 'dinner train' operation in Tacoma a decade ago...

People talk a lot of smack about the Golden Pacific operation in Tacoma, but it was fun to ride. The cars were spotless, crew actually came by asking for individual feedback on what they could do better and the lunch was really good.
They did a photo runby before we boarded the train, which was great. The crew did a Q/A session and each trip took a group photo. I felt just fine paying $50 for the day and was going to do it again a couple of weeks later but they folded up that fast.
These days, it's tough to find people who can say they've ridden behind a T-1, even out here, as none of the railfans I know in the Tacoma/Olympia area have said they actually paid to ride that operation. I didn't encounter a single 'railfan' as we'd define it on the train when I rode it. Everyone I saw was riding for the heck of it.

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