Timeless
For Monochrome Monday here's a steam bonus. This was one of the most epic steam shows of my life so here's another frame rendered in black and white.
Reading and Northern 2102 is leading a Fall Foliage excursion round trip from North Reading to Jim Thorpe and return. The stout 4-8-4 was built in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:
The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.
The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own shops right in Reading, PA.
She is seen here on historic 'home rails' of the old Reading Company sending smoke and steam to the heavens as claws at the wet rails starting 17 cars north after making a scheduled stop to pick up passengers here at the railroad's headquarters town at about MP 78.4 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline.
Home of the RBMN's corporate offices, dispatching center, locomotive shop, and covered train shed for their OCS equipment Port Clinton is a railfan's delight with props galore like this signal bridge that was saved and reinstalled here (if anyone knows where it was originally I'd love to know) and the juxtaposition of old and new in the form of switch stands with a modern bow handles and old school colored lantern targets. Now fully equipped with a CTC signaled mainline there was virtually nothing here in 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 the only thing to be found in this spot was a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods.
To learn more about this locomotive check out the RBMN's page here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
Timeless
For Monochrome Monday here's a steam bonus. This was one of the most epic steam shows of my life so here's another frame rendered in black and white.
Reading and Northern 2102 is leading a Fall Foliage excursion round trip from North Reading to Jim Thorpe and return. The stout 4-8-4 was built in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:
The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.
The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own shops right in Reading, PA.
She is seen here on historic 'home rails' of the old Reading Company sending smoke and steam to the heavens as claws at the wet rails starting 17 cars north after making a scheduled stop to pick up passengers here at the railroad's headquarters town at about MP 78.4 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline.
Home of the RBMN's corporate offices, dispatching center, locomotive shop, and covered train shed for their OCS equipment Port Clinton is a railfan's delight with props galore like this signal bridge that was saved and reinstalled here (if anyone knows where it was originally I'd love to know) and the juxtaposition of old and new in the form of switch stands with a modern bow handles and old school colored lantern targets. Now fully equipped with a CTC signaled mainline there was virtually nothing here in 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 the only thing to be found in this spot was a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods.
To learn more about this locomotive check out the RBMN's page here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023