#2001
Reading Class T-1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1923· class of 30 American 4-8-4 locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EM DSC 0827 (2732535879): Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Reading & Northern 2102 Kirby Avenue: Fan Railer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Reading T-1 is a class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives owned by the Reading Company. They were rebuilt from thirty "I-10sa" class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotives between 1945 and 1947. Out of the thirty rebuilt, four survive in preservation today, those being numbers 2100, 2101, 2102, and 2124, of which 2100 and 2102 are operational.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 103 years ago, in 1923.
- 4.1 MW is about 48 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 33 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 33.5 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1923–2020
- retired
- 1964
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Reading Shops
- operators
- Reading Company, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- 4.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- New: 2-8-0
- length
- 33.5 m
- weight
- 200 t
- nicknames
- T-Hog
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23023032, Wikipedia: Reading Class T-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.