Reading and Northern 2102 Lehigh Rambles to Pittston

Well renowned Reading Company built T-1 northern known as 2102 for the second time in a row completes a round trip through the Lehigh Valley into Pittston for annual Tomato Festival. Join us as we take a look at this one of a kind locomotive traveling through some of the most breathtaking scenery while traveling on former Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley railroad trackage as it once again romps along the Road of Anthracite.

The Reading 2102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1923, originally designated as an I-10sa class 2-8-0, 2044. By 1945, however in demand for more powerful locomotives the railroad took 30 of its I-10sa class and converted them into more powerful 4-8-4 northerns and were classified as the T-1 Nos 2100 through 2129 were used in service along the readings right of way until they were retired in 1956 when the Reading retired all steam from they’re rosters. The 2102 was then moved and used as a steam generator for a steel plant. But in 1962 as her sister locomotive 2124 was retired from the Iron Horse Rambles 2102 entered service along sister T-1 locomotives 2100 and 2101. By 1965, the Rambles ended, and 2102 was sold off. She was sold to many private individuals who ran her all the way up to 1985 where she was by Andy Muller for his Blue Mountain and Reading railroad. There she would pull trains up till 1991 when her flue time expired. She remained dormant for almost 3 decades until in 2016 the now railroad the Reading and Northern took on the challenge to rebuild her from the ground up and on February 2022 she moved under her own power for the first time in thirty years. Today she is the main excursion locomotive for select trains on the Road of Anthracite.

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Also Special thank you to the Whelan Family for making this trip possible and all the great people I met during the duration of this trip.

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