80th Birthday for Reading T-1 2100 (AFT 250) Whistle Blow Event 10/11/25

In today’s video is a little bit different from the other content I have it’s more audio than visuals but I have provided pictures taken during the event by fellow members just have something to see from time to time. This video is on the 80th birthday of Reading T-1 2100, now as AFT 250 with it being her 80th birthday the we at the American Steam Railroad society have put on a steam whistle event where patrons could bring in their steam whistles and have it blown with steam provided by a fellow member’s steam tractor, that was brought in. The video is more of an audio recording of most of the whistles that were brought to the event with a small slideshow just to show the event. The thumbnail and all pictures that aren’t the first and last ones are from 3 ASR members. Out of the seven hours of the event I have just over an hour of audio. I have removed the dead air in between whistles and when changing them out. Reading 2100 is a T-1 class 4-8-4 "Northern", originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1923 as an I-10sa class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type, No. 2100 was rebuilt by RDG's own locomotive shops as a 4-8-4, in September 1945. Between 1961 and 1964, No. 2100 was used to pull the RDG's Iron Horse Rambles excursions alongside fellow T-1's Nos. 2124 and 2102. After the rambles ended, No. 2100 was sold along with No. 2101 in 1967 to a scrapyard in Baltimore, Maryland. No. 2100 subsequently went through multiple ownership changes and spent more time in storage or being moved than it did operating under its own power. In 1998, it was sold to Thomas Payne, who moved it to St. Thomas, Ontario in Canada and modified it to burn oil. It eventually made its way to the Golden Pacific Railroad in Tacoma, Washington to pull tourist trains for one year, before it sat idle in Richland. In 2015, the American Steam Railroad Preservation Association (ASR) acquired No. 2100 and moved it to the Ex-Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. Where we are currently on an ongoing restoration as of writing this. As you may have read I said we, a little over a year ago I decided to join the American Steam Railroad preservation Society to get my hands dirty and actual help restore a steam locomotive with this group not being too far away from home I decided to volunteer my free time out to the organization when I can. The video is more of an audio recording of most of the whistles that were brought to the event with a small slideshow just to show the event. The thumbnail and all pictures that aren’t the first and last ones are from 3 ASR members. Out of the seven hours of the event I have just over an hour of audio. I have removed the dead air in between whistles and when changing them out. So sit back and relax to nonstop whistles!