Firing up 2102 for the 8/13/23 Iron Horse Rambles
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Published 2023-08-26
In this video I take you behind the scenes to see the crew light the fire and prepare for the August 13, 2023 Iron Horse Ramble. The process spanned three days including the deadhead run to Reading Outer Station to hook up with the excursion's consist.
0:00 Friday intro
1:05 positioning 2102
2:39 loading the fire box
5:00 lighting the fire
5:56 smoking
8:45 Saturday check-in
11:12 Sunday departing steam shop
16:33 Bellemans Church Road
17:19 arriving in Reading
19:06 end screen
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All Comments (21)
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Good morning Jamie. Beautifully done friend. I bet you have footage that no one else has. I never realized Port Clinton was so close to Delaware Valley. I always thought it was further north. Many life times ago I walked right through Port Clinton on the Appalachian Trail. Who knew? I also saw it's 74° there right now. Sounds wonderful. I hope you're doing well and having a great day so far friend.
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My favorite 4-8-4, nice video!!!
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Very well done Jamie! So interesting to see the modern replacement parts intertwined with older. Thanks for the behind the scenes footage. Stay safe.
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thank you Jamie. that was a really cool video to watch.. takes a bit of time to wake that beast up
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Awesome video Jamie! That’s pretty cool how quick the fire caught on everything after it was lit. And super neat to actually hear noise from the water boiling on the second day; usually you can’t hear anything like that when they are operating the locomotive because of the dynamo or just the stack. Very cool though! Looking forward to the other one in the future 🚂💙💙
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Good afternoon Jamie. We made it to the weekend. I hope you're doing well friend and having a very good day.
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Good morning Jamie. I'm back to rewatch friend. Stay safe today.🎉
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So neat - 10:40 - reminds me of a percolator coffee pot. WONDERFUL video to compliment our Ramble run last year. THANK YOU !
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Some reason I never got notified of this, but saw it with your newest notification. That was very interesting to see and glad your job is allowing you special perks like this. Congratulations on how well the video is doing as well.
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awesome video jamie, from start to finish. keep making more of these behind the scenes videos when you can. this is great stuff.
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Thank you for this video. I wanted to see the procedure for a long time. It appears to take about 2 days to get 2102 ready to roll. Awesome.
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Awesome behind the scenes look Jamie.
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Wow, I love that engine. Thank you for the video, Jamie.
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I was actually there at the Reading outer station in that shit. You can kinda see me towards the end on the right. It was my first time ever seeing 2102 that day and I couldn’t have been happier
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Thank you for sharing , you should use some of your videos as publicity for the Reading and Northern to get customers to ride .
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Very cool Jamie
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Awesome video that was cool that you got to video that up close first of your videos I watched thanks for sharing
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Awesome 😊
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Nice!!!
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I was at Reading OS. It was my first time up on the R&N. I enjoyed it. T2102 put on a great show on Sunday.
