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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #422

Riggelweg OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 68 Thank you received: 19	I ran across a website that shows pictures of fantasy steam engines. http://www.railarchive.net/fantasysteam/index.html And there is a Reading one: That would have been a brute.
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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #424

Turboboost910 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 250 Thank you received: 17	I think a fantasy steam would be if the Reading used traditional USRA types instead of building their own, so us N scalers wouldn't be left out in the cold!!!!
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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #425

Turboboost910 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 250 Thank you received: 17	But i do like that 2-10-4. don't know much about that configuration and what it was used for. It would look even better with all the piping and everything instead of the shrouded boiler. I've always appreciated those more. Makes them more interesting. Thats probably why the N1, K1 and I10 are my favorite steamers.
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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #508

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	I remember back in the late 1960's(yes showing my age.) there was a photo in Model Railroader of someone who did up a NKP berkshire in Reading, and it looked pretty good. they had it numbered 2200.
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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #511

tomjacobs OFFLINE Superintendent Posts: 177 Thank you received: 37	If you read Holton's history of the Reading, the Reading actually did have a 2-8-4 Berkshire on the drawing board at one point, but it never came to fruition.
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Reading Fantasy Steam 11 years 2 months ago #514

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Got bored waiting to visit a friend so I had a little fun with Tom's comment, its a M-1, I-10 cross with some I-9 plumbing. I have learned theres 3 basic formulas of Reading steam locomotive set up. Camelback, early end cab (I-9 M-1 unstreamlined Gs etc.) and later end cab (T-1, semi streamlined Gs) details are different but the basic layout style is the same.

Its a little arched but I was using a rather large floppy sketch pad.

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September 6, 1945

#2100, the first T-1 4-8-4 steam locomotive, is outshopped at Reading.

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