You're welcome BLW! Mine's not heading for the recycle bin either!
The Blue Mountain and Reading 2102 on the cover? So it's not in Reading finery, I can overlook certain things!
Thanks for the heads up on the TRP. It was great with one exception, the 2102 0n the cover should have been in Reading dress rather than Blue Mountain and Reading. I did enjoy it and have now placed the magazine in a sealed bag for safe keeping.
The open house on may 9 will be great. Not only looking forward to seeing the 2100 but the 4070 as well. The society also has a pair of nickel plate heavyweight coaches in great condition. Great time for all.
Looks like it. As you can see, the office building is readily visible from the NEC tracks, even today.
Tom
Great to hear 2100 will be coming back! This brings fresh hope for other projects and shows how anything can happen if we put our minds to it. And what a great photo of the Baldwin plant, so much else to see there besides a symbol of industrial might. Is that a GG1-powered passenger/mail-express train with a caboose streaking along the bottom?
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The buuilding that was the offices of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone,Pa. is now home to several other companies. The building is accesible to the public(not large groups) though there is nothing more to see than photos on walls in public hallways and a fairly good sized model of the Reading T-1 2102 Locomotive with tender. I have been there a couple of times in the last few years and have taken photos inside and out. The last of the manufacturing buildings now houses an energy related company and they frown upon anyoneentering that area and when I attempted to get photos of the outside of that building I was told to leave the property.
SealBook27Some of you mention a Baldwin Locomotive Works Tower.
They mean the cruciform office building at what was the Eddystone plant. It has been renovated as office space. You can download a .pdf from the leasing agent, Virtus Realty Advisors, here.
http://www.virtusrea.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Virtus/Properties_files/Baldwin.pdf
K4sPRR ROBERT WILLISON Where is the 2100 being restored at? I see it is being shipped to Cleveland via flat car by an organization based in Veron Ohio. Certainly great news for us 2100's fans. Is she going to the old B & O round house on west 3rd, current home to the 4070? The 2100 is being restored by the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, yes the former B&O facility on W3rd Street in Cleveland. They will have an open house on May 9th.
ROBERT WILLISON Where is the 2100 being restored at? I see it is being shipped to Cleveland via flat car by an organization based in Veron Ohio. Certainly great news for us 2100's fans. Is she going to the old B & O round house on west 3rd, current home to the 4070?
Where is the 2100 being restored at? I see it is being shipped to Cleveland via flat car by an organization based in Veron Ohio. Certainly great news for us 2100's fans. Is she going to the old B & O round house on west 3rd, current home to the 4070?
The 2100 is being restored by the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, yes the former B&O facility on W3rd Street in Cleveland. They will have an open house on May 9th.
From ASR (regarding whether 2100 will 'fit' in the roundhouse when she arrives):
"Yes...we are very aware of the turntable and stall size. It was very much thought through. Just like the J project [611 in Spencer] items will be swapped out as needed. MRPS is working on stalls 6-10 so there will be more storage shortly.Read more about 2100 at http://www.fireup2100.org "
Firelock76 All you Reading T1 fans should head down to your local Barnes and Noble, or local hobby shop, and pick up the latest issue of "TRP", once called "The Railroad Press", now "Trains and Railroads of the Past." There's a 14 page article and photo "slide show", in color, of the Reading "Iron Horse Rambles" starring 2100, 2102, and 2124. You'll love it!
All you Reading T1 fans should head down to your local Barnes and Noble, or local hobby shop, and pick up the latest issue of "TRP", once called "The Railroad Press", now "Trains and Railroads of the Past." There's a 14 page article and photo "slide show", in color, of the Reading "Iron Horse Rambles" starring 2100, 2102, and 2124.
You'll love it!
ROBERT WILLISON Where is the 2100 being restored at? I see it is being shipped to Cleveland via flat car by an organization based in veron Ohio. Certainly great news for us 2100's fans. Is she going to the old b & o round house on west 3rd, current home to the 4070? The 2100 is being restored by the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, yes the former B&O facility on W3rd Street in Cleveland. They will have an open house on May 9th.
Where is the 2100 being restored at? I see it is being shipped to Cleveland via flat car by an organization based in veron Ohio. Certainly great news for us 2100's fans. Is she going to the old b & o round house on west 3rd, current home to the 4070?
You're welcome Robert! I don't get "TRP" all the time (it's typically diesel era oriented) but this issue is too good to pass up.
Thanks for the heads up
All you Reading T1 fans should head down to your local Barnes and Noble, or local hobby shop, and pick up the latest issue of "TRP", once called "The Railroad Press", now "Trains and Railroads of the Past." There's a 14 page article and photo "slide show", with black and white and wonderful color shots of the Reading "Iron Horse Rambles" starring 2100, 2102, and 2124.
Yeah boy, been riding behind her since the acy excursion in 1971. Followed her on the horseshoe curve trip, trips on the Pittsburgh and shawmut and the excursions into Cass wva from ronceverte wva. The Reading t 2 were some fine locomotives.
ROBERT WILLISON We could use a few more as well. Now if only her sister, 2102 could make a come back.
We could use a few more as well. Now if only her sister, 2102 could make a come back.
As trains just announced it is indeed happening
But i dont know the specifics like where its gonna run & projected completion. Is it me or are there a ton of
Steam engines getting rebuilt for service all of the sudden? ???
Nice
I've heard some rumors to that effect, but have no definite info.
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