She's always done that what's impressive is she's drowning out her original Reading freight hooter. Takes alot of noise to do that.

The freight whistle doesn't have that problem.

That power draft it to get maximum heat out of the reading ants it’s they burn

happened to me with soo line 1003. you dont reakize how damn loud they can be

Aaaaaaaand now you know why SP 4449 has a Leslie A-125 on the front of 'er.

Especially when she has one of the loudest whistles ever made!

Myles! Lol

A steam locomotive with an air horn? Doesn't seem right. Just like diesels with air whistles. Whistles belong on steam locomotives and air horns belong on diesels and electrics. I don't like the single note whistles on American steam locomotives, either. Sounds too British. I like the Reading 6 chime on #2102.

R&N runs the locomotive the way it as intended to be.

Yes!!!! what a show

When you own the locomotive and pay for the fuel it consumes then you can run it in the corner making a big gog bark.

That's because the microphones don't pick up the sound good.

@@pauljones2762 - They're also pulling 17 sold-out passenger cars and a HEP car - up a 2% grade!

The Reading did alot more clear cutting of their lines back then. R&N doesn't do that it's owned by a Environmentalist who loves trees and wildlife.

Imagine the days when Reading had 30 of them.

It's because the RBMN still runs them like they were built to be run. Johnson bar in the corner, throttle on the ceiling. All the other steamers you see restored and running *were* this loud when still in revenue service, before they were retired.

It's also because they run them like they stole them.

1) They run them fully loaded and how they were run in service days. Elsewhere they are pampered and not really allowed to work. 2) both have new blast nozzles so the exhaust is crisper and more sharp. 3) As the late Jim Boyd editor of Railfan and then Railfan and Railroad always said the Reading T1 was the loudest locomotive he had ever heard. This is because for the locomotive it has a massive smokebox arrangement to get the boiler length needed when they stretched the I10 firebox. I've seen 2102 shatter glass, break large tree limbs, make rocks fall, car alarms go off, all from her exhaust. Never been around a louder steamer ever. Even 1218 didn't make this much noise coming into Bluefield......The Big Boy doesn't have a chance either, she's a double stack so won't have the exhaust blast to do it, so don't go there.........

@@steamgent4592 even still - Ed has flat out admitted that UP doesn't push its steam hard anymore. There's a video of 844 (back when it was still 8444) in the 80s of it blasting out of Greeley. You can tell the moment he pins the throttle on the ceiling. He gets to a grade crossing and you can barely hear the whistle (the same model as on the Big Boy, which is to say, an EXTREMELY loud whistle) over the exhaust. But that was before they started putting the helper diesels in manifest. They (and most others) just don't push them that hard anymore, for the sake of reduced boiler wear, if nothing else.

Wish more people ran them like how they were ran back in the day. I know it puts wear on them but god damn is it glorious. When a machine that is practically a living thing is built it’s meant to be worked like how it was built to be worked and bless the RBMN for doing just that

You will not be disappointed. People come from all over the country to see it.

I would love to hear that clip !!

I videoed that takeoff from Port Clinton, which is on my channel. I was also amazed at how fast it accelerated!

HUGE props to Reading & Northern for doing that! VERY few tourist trains actually give passengers the old-fashioned "fast start" that was so common in the golden age of railroads. They know their engines and aren't afraid to let them work!

As it should be!

2102 is the crown jewel of excursion locomotives. It puts on a more spectacular show than 4014.

@@1940limited that’s debatable the difference between the 2102 and the 4014 is the 4014 was built as a freight locomotive and I think that the 2102 was built as a passenger locomotive

@@rudycarlson8245 the 2102 was also built as a freight locomotive being reconfigured from older I10 2-8-0 locomotives to larger and more powerful 4-8-4’s.

@@christherailfan5851 thanks for the info did not know that

Even more than other fellow 4-8-4's like 611?

I was there, my mom and I - just like the 80s!

I stumbled upon it that day when visiting Jim Thorpe expecting to see only 2102. The experience was beyond words. There's a video of the double header pulling out of Port Clinton that's simply incredible. Andy sure knows how to run an excursion.

Thanks you to Andy for bringing back those days. He does everything right. I know most excursions roads can't do what he dos so I'm very grateful to have this railroad close to where I live.

Fortunately, enough people didn't want them gone to preserve quite a few. It's been said the steam locomotive is the most sensuous machine ever built by man. Agreed.

Fortunately R&N is in a position to handle that. They always put on a show.

I did.😃It was! And FWIW, the N&W 611 made the same roar at 70+ mph. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNuEn6x5m8mbZXk.html And in the cab of 611 at 84 mph, the roar was indescribable.🤯 But still, at trackside I'd swear that the 2101 was a few decibels louder....? But either way, heck yeah!

SP&S 700 and SP 4449 are also loud enough in their own right! I once rode a doubleheader behind both SP&S 700 and SP 4449, and wow, so much power!

@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos Lucky you!😃

@@tomtroszak Definitely!

Definitely, the 2101 was Ross Rowlands back then, before he got 614. Anyone in the hobby awhile knows Ross and his other crewmen, back in those days operated steam "Textbook", and ran off the reverser on the mainline with the throttle on the peg on the roof! The faster she needed to go he hooked them up, the slower the deeper in the corner...........Fortunately it was caught at low speed going up 17 Mile Grade with both locomotives.........

1522 is amazing. I've only seen it in videos, but was very impressed.

1522 isn’t coming back. Too much work would need to be done and the museum is under the county government now.

Running it with the reverse down in the corner and the throttle wide open.

Alot of factors. Train weight, exhaust setup and the amount of steam being forced into the cylinders being chief among them.

Well, he was SOMEONE'S dad! Our people filter was broken. LOL

This will be the final segment of "Steamin' In 2022" along with 765, 1309 and a cab ride on freshly shopped 401. Editing is already underway.

@@DivergingClearVideo awesome, thank you for responding 😀

@@DivergingClearVideo Well done getting footage of the always impressive 765

I think that may be done for show. Certainly the guys at the R&N know how to operate the locomotive. One of his coal trains this past spring had clean exhaust.

@@1940limited I agree I think that the huge cloud of black smoke coming out of the engine is for the photographers I think they know how to fire the 2102

Those wheel slips probably destroy a perfect fire. You go from the absolute hardest draft to nothing in a split second when they close the throttle back to the hardest draft again. I would have to imagine that is about the same as dropping your charcoal grill off the roof of your house. The exhaust from the cylinders is providing all the draft. I would not imagine they have any blower set up when she is working like that.

where has this been done? what are the decibel scores for bothof them? just curious

@@kackdackel9170 I was told at Tamaqua Tunnel that 425's decibel loudness was enough to bust the windows on its test train's passenger cars while going through the tunnel. 2102 has not busted any windows of cars inside the tunnel as of yet. From what I was told to this day now R&N's steam crew no longer works 425 while in the tunnel rather just lets her glide on through. Like I said not scientifically but only from experience as what was told to me.

To answer your questions, the microphone in use was an Audio-Technica AT2022 stereo mic, which is not exactly intended as a camera mic but works great with a shock-mount on the hot-shoe. The location is at the Nesquehoning Conservation Club behind a residential area west of town.