T-1 Reading Location?

[081552]

Here's another photo from my cousin's collection from the late 40s/early fifties. I think this is a Reading T-1. Can someone tell me the location?

 Thanks

 

[TomDiehl]

#2123 is a T-1 based on the locomotive number. By the rust on the front of the smokebox, I'd venture to say this was before the famous "Rambles" the Reading ran. There's not much of a background in the photo to venture a guess on where this was located.

[Lost World]

Judging from the lack of hills anywhere in the background, I would say it was taken in New Jersey.

[kevikens]

It's definitely pre Reading Rambles as there is no Reading diamond on the front. From all those tracks I think Bound Brook, NJ may be the location and ca 1950 the time.

[Lost World]

It's definitely pre Reading Rambles as there is no Reading diamond on the front. From all those tracks I think Bound Brook, NJ may be the location and ca 1950 the time.

I think you're right.  Behind the T-1 and down the tracks a little would be CNJ's Bound Brook station (engine is passing the current parking lot).  It's hard to recognize the town, and even the tracks look different.  When last I fanned there in the 80's the foreground tracks, while still there, had actually been incorporated into the little switchyard that used to serve Cyanimid.

[oldline1]

I think the location would have to be "HEAVEN"! Any place that you could see a T-1 running like that would have to be heaven. LOL

The 2123 wasn't one of the 4 "Rambles" engines so it wouldn't have had the Reading diamond on the air pump shield.

The Reading gave me a T-1 engine diagram in the early 1960's and it listed the 2123 as stored for future Rambles use along with the 2100-2102 & 2124. I've never seen anything else that mentioned this and she certainly didn't come out to play with the others. Anyone know anything about her? Was she one of the engines leased to the Pennsy in 1956-57?

Long live the T-1......................and lets get the 2100 back East!

Roger

[Lost World]

Bound Brook was as close to heaven as a fan could get in New Jersey, especially at that time.  THe LV and the CNJ mainlines passed within about a hundred feet of each other, and the Reading's Port Reading branch ran behind the LV.  Trains of the aforementioned roads plus the B&O--who used the CNJ to access Jersey City--flowed constantly through town.  Even now there is a lot of action there, though there is practically no freight business on the old CNJ (now NJ Transit).  It was a real hotspot, visited by many photographers.