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News photos: Reading & Northern 4-8-4 sees freight action

By Trains Staff | August 20, 2022

| Last updated on February 23, 2024


No. 2102 handles Tamaqua-Reading revenue freight consist

Steam locomotive and freight cars under blue skies
Reading & Northern No. 2102 brings its freight move through New Ringgold, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Gary Pancavage)

READING, Pa. — As promised, Reading & Northern’s restored Reading Co. T-1 4-8-4, No. 2102, saw action in freight service on Friday, Aug. 19, hauling a 28-car train (plus caboose) from Tamaqua to Reading after a light-engine move from Port Clinton, Pa., to Tamaqua. Photographer Gary Pancavage provides two shots of the action.

Steam locomotive passing "North Reading Junction" sign with freight train
No. 2102 and its freight train arrive at North Reading Junction. (Gary Pancavage)
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