Reading & Northern sets 2102 test run

Reading & Northern sets 2102 test run

By Trains Staff | April 25, 2022

| Last updated on March 18, 2024


Locomotive set for North Reading-Jim Thorpe trip on Tuesday

Steam locomotive blowing out steam
Reading & Northern No. 2102 makes a test run on April 6, 2022. The railraoad says another test trip is set for this Tuesday, April 26. Scott A. Hartley

NORTH READING, Pa. — The Reading & Northern will conduct another test run of 4-8-4 No. 2102 on Tuesday, April 26, the railroad announced on the Facebook page for its passenger operations.

The test train is slated to leave North Reading at 9 a.m. en route to Jim Thorpe, Pa.

The T-1 locomotive built by the Reading Co. in 1945 returned to operation earlier this month, making its first test run April 6 between Port Clinton, Pa., and North Reading [see “Reading & Northern runs test trip …,” Trains News Wire, April 6, 2022]. That trip marked the culmination of a six-year, $1.7 million rebuild of the locomotive.

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