Reading Co. loco's I'd like to see

Those are high on my list as well, although at this point I'm somewhat resigned to kitbashing them.  A N&W Y3 isn't a terrible starting point for an N1.  The K1 would be more work.

Seems like the READING is one of the most overlooked when it comes to their freight steam engines that have been offered in 3-rail.

I was always a big fan of the READING and still am.

I would love to have a model of the K1.   It would be awesome pulling a string of 15 - 20 coal cars!

 

Jim

dig some digging based on Wowak's post.

 

here we have a N&W y-6 vs a Reading N-1

 

pilot, cab and air pumps are very different but not a bad place to start at all!

I think the Y3 is closer in specs to the N1:

Very nice - I couldn't find a picture on my lunch break!

I would love to see a Reading Co. I-10 2-8-0.  A small, chunky brute of an engine.  Would be able to travel on small diameter track.

 

Maybe we can talk Weaver into bring them in.  Weaver does a lot of eastern steam.

 

Steve

I have an MTH WM H9 I'm eventually going to cut up to make an I10SA.

  And then there is record-setting Camelback P-1as 4-4-2 No. 1027. Built by Baldwin in 1896, she and sister 1026 rolled their 84 1/2" drivers at the head end of BOARDWALK FLYERS between Camden, NJ, and Atlantic City on the Atlantic City Railroad, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia & Reading. In 1897 these were the fastest regularly scheduled trains in the world. No. 1027 averaged 69.3 mph and hit 71.6 mph.

 

   To compete for lucrative seashore traffic, the Pennsy designed 3 Camelback Atlantics with European 3-axle tenders for service between Philly and Atlantic City. Designated class E-1, they culminated in the E-6 Atlantics. "The Lindbergh Engine," No. 460, rests in The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg.

  

   No. 1027 would be the first Vauclain compound in 3-rail "O" Gauge.

 

  The only picture I could find of her is this painting for sale at Amazon.com

Believe it or not, the K-1's were not designed for coal trains. They were intended for merchandise trains between Hagerstown and Bethlehem - Reading's version of fast freights or "time freights." They ran on the "Dutch Line," jointed owned by the Reading and the Western Maryland, between Hagerstown and Lurgan. The Philadelphia, Harrisburg & Pittsburgh Branch connected Lurgan and Harrisburg (The concrete arch bridge across the Susquehanna River stands north of I-83. Norfolk Southern uses it.). At Harrisburg, the Lebanon Valley Branch provided access to Rutherford Yard west of Hershey and extended to Reading, where it met the East Penn Branch to Allentown and Bethlehem.

 

The K-1's were the world's largest 2-10-2's. They ended their careers in "push-up" (helper) service on the 2.6% westbound grade from Gordon to Locust Summit. In the early 1950's, the remaining T-1 4-8-4's replaced them.

 

K-1's were rebuilt from N-1 2-8-8-2's to obtain faster heavy freight locomotives. They hauled just about anything. With their long, elegant 19,000-gal. and 26-ton tenders, they would be impressive sights on "O" gauge layouts.

Thank you, Wowak!