Super awesome video, Randy! So glad we were able to share this adventure together. Andy and everyone at Reading & Northern are fantastic, and I'm so grateful that they gave us an opportunity that other railroads would never consider. I've always enjoyed riding and railfanning their trains, so to see what goes on behind the scenes was really special.
I was thinking back in the 1960s and early 70s when the American Freedom Train project started. I know two of them (2100 & 2101?) were found in a Baltimore scrap yard and one of this class was in the Reading roundhouse in Brownsville but unsure which number.
@@emeraldsoundproductions Just checked with one of the Brownsville Pa railfans and he thought that when Steam Tours Inc of Ohio owned it, it was last parked in Brownsville for about the last 10 years of their ownership and then sold to the Reading Northern in 1985. My grandmother lived about 2 blocks from the roundhouse but I could not remember which number was there, just that it was "related" to the pair that were in Baltimore where I lived.
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Super awesome video, Randy! So glad we were able to share this adventure together. Andy and everyone at Reading & Northern are fantastic, and I'm so grateful that they gave us an opportunity that other railroads would never consider. I've always enjoyed riding and railfanning their trains, so to see what goes on behind the scenes was really special.
It’s Gonna Be Sad To See 425 Going Down For Her FRA Rebuild After She Does Her Final Run On December 18th, Hopefully It Wouldn’t Take Too Long.
Was 2102 originally stored in the roundhouse (now demolished) in Brownsville Pa or was that a different, sister engine?
The 2102 has been owned by The Reading & Northern Railroad since 1985. Before that, a railroad company in Ohio owned it.
The other sister engine is on display permanently at Steamtown in Scranton
I was thinking back in the 1960s and early 70s when the American Freedom Train project started. I know two of them (2100 & 2101?) were found in a Baltimore scrap yard and one of this class was in the Reading roundhouse in Brownsville but unsure which number.
That I'm not sure of.
@@emeraldsoundproductions Just checked with one of the Brownsville Pa railfans and he thought that when Steam Tours Inc of Ohio owned it, it was last parked in Brownsville for about the last 10 years of their ownership and then sold to the Reading Northern in 1985. My grandmother lived about 2 blocks from the roundhouse but I could not remember which number was there, just that it was "related" to the pair that were in Baltimore where I lived.