The only real Lionel Train.

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Richard K. owned this engine when he owned Lionel. My friend Thomas Payne owned it when I rode in the cab. Enjoy the Photo Show. Please let me know if the link works as Comcast has a new program.

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/Qh5Vn7NU

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So it is a T-1 after all. The red paint made me wonder. I figured it was a PT Defiance museum piece. I think you should sell your dirt bike, stock car, and MTH collection and buy it.

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Link worked, looks great, but it is missing the center rail.

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CTT did an article on Richards T-1 but here is a short info for those that don’t know the facts.

  • 1985, September - 2102 brought back to Reading by The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society to run excursions celebrating the 40th anniversary of the T-1 debut. (T-1 2100 was outshopped Sept 6, 1945.) While 2102 was in Reading, Andrew Muller, Owner of the Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad, made the financially distressed owners and offer they couldn’t refuse, and purchased 2102.
  • 1986+ - 2102 ran excursions on BM&R, Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, as well as Conrail. Taken out of service (date unknown) in need of overhaul.
  • 1988 (un) - 2100 aquired by Richard Kughn (then owner of Lionel Trains) and overhauled for mainline use. At this time, Lionel produced a scale model of 2100.
  • 1995 - Steamtown USA becomes Steamtown NHS, still owns 2124. Having recieved cosmetic restoration, 2124 is a canditate for future restoration to service.
  • 1995, September 25 - 2102 moves to Steamtown NHS.
  • 1998 January 16th - 2100 auctioned off. The highest bidder: Tom Payne, owner of the Central Western Railway, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • 1998 June 21th - 2100 moves to Michigan Central Railway shops, at the Elgin County Railway Museum, St. Thomas, Ontario.
  • 1998, June 26 - 2102 is moved from Steamtown to RBM&N headquarters at Port Clinton, where a new locomotive shop is being constructed. 2102 is scheduled for overhaul there, once the shop is completed.
  • 1998 July - Tom Payne moves his private car to the museum to stay with 2100. He will oversee 2100’s converion to burn oil.
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I recall an interview in an early issue of CTT with Bill Benson. Owner of now defunct Right O Way Industries. Apparently he was in charge of the restoration of this beast for Richard Kughn. Love the cab and boiler face architecture. What’s the boiler pressure of those beasts anyway? Were they superheated modernized steam? Designed for mountain coal hauls?

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John, does this bring back old memories?

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Cool video thanks.

laz57

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Thanks, I think that’s as close to riding in the cab of a Lionel steamer as I will ever get. LOL

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Boy does that ever! Thanks for posting!