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Toward the end of the steam era, many American (and foreign) railroads used 4-8-4 "Northern" locomotives for both passenger and freight, making them the standard "dual service" engine of the transition era. After Lehigh Valley Railroad president Revelle W. Brown moved to the Reading Railroad in 1944, he decided to give the Reading 4-8-4s like what he had seen on the LV, so locomotive superintendent E.P. Gangewere designed the T-1, which produced 68,000 pounds of tractive effort and weighed almost 405 tons in full working order. The U.S. government restricted the production of new steam locomotives during World War II, so the Reading converted thirty prewar Baldwin I-10sa "Consolidation" 2-8-0s to T-1s. The "T-Hogs" mostly worked on fast mixed freight until 1957, but four were revived in 1959 to pull "Iron Horse Rambles" excursion trains. The Iron Horse Rambles were terminated in 1964, but all four of the T-1s involved have been preserved including No. 2124, which was collected by F. Nelson Blount and is now displayed in front of the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Apart from the UP Big Boy, it is the largest locomotive at the museum.

Description
Toward the end of the steam era, many American (and foreign) railroads used 4-8-4 "Northern" locomotives for both passenger and freight, making them the standard "dual service" engine of the transition era. After Lehigh Valley Railroad president Revelle W. Brown moved to the Reading Railroad in 1944, he decided to give the Reading 4-8-4s like what he had seen on the LV, so locomotive superintendent E.P. Gangewere designed the T-1, which produced 68,000 pounds of tractive effort and weighed almost 405 tons in full working order. The U.S. government restricted the production of new steam locomotives during World War II, so the Reading converted thirty prewar Baldwin I-10sa "Consolidation" 2-8-0s to T-1s. The "T-Hogs" mostly worked on fast mixed freight until 1957, but four were revived in 1959 to pull "Iron Horse Rambles" excursion trains. The Iron Horse Rambles were terminated in 1964, but all four of the T-1s involved have been preserved including No. 2124, which was collected by F. Nelson Blount and is now displayed in front of the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Apart from the UP Big Boy, it is the largest locomotive at the museum.