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Owner: Reading Railroad
Model:BLW 4-8-4Built As:RDG 2020 (2-8-0)
Serial Number:57578Order No:
Frame Number:27X32 cylinders, 70" driversBuilt:12/1923
Notes:BLW 12/1923 as 2-8-0 2020, reblt to 2127 in 03/1947, retired 05/1960
Other locos with this serial:  RDG 2127(4-8-4)
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RDG 2127 T1 Reading Rebuilt Baldwin I-10sas
Title:  RDG 2127 T1 Reading Rebuilt Baldwin I-10sas
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Photo Date:  7/1/1946  Upload Date: 8/20/2009 7:14:38 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  RDG 2127(4-8-4)
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RDG 4-8-4 #2127
Title:  RDG 4-8-4 #2127
Description:  According to steamlocomotive.com,"When Revelle W. Brown became president of the Reading Company he wanted to speed up freight service. To that end he ordered the company's superintendent of motive power and rolling equipment, E. Paul Gangewere, to get together with the design engineers at the Baldwin Locomotive Works to develop a plan to convert 30 of the railroad's I-10a 2-8-0 Consolidations to new 4-8-4 Northerns. These 30 steam locomotives (road numbers 2100 -2129) were rebuilt in the railroad's own shops in Reading, PA, beginning in 1945 with the project completed by 1947. The conversions were made with several reclaimed parts from the I-10a Consolidations (road numbers 2020-2049) and new parts furnished from Baldwin and other vendors." Unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  9/30/1949  Upload Date: 5/27/2014 9:34:15 AM
Location:  Communipaw, NJ
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 2127(4-8-4)
Views:  712   Comments: 2


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