Chuck Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 Things don't look good for the 2100... From Trainorders.com... Quote I was reflecting on the awful string of luck poor 2100 has had for the last 42 years. When I bought her and her sister 2101 they'd been in the Striegel scrapyard in Baltimore for about 15 years and 2100 was selected to do the honors of being the one restored to pull the American Freedom Train and the 01 to be her parts donor. Then she spent the next 13 years sitting in the Hagerstown,Md. roundhouse functioning as a catchers mit for the pigeon droppings from the larger resident bird population until Mr. Richard Kughn came along and hired Bill Benson to fix her up for excursion duties. With Kughn investing about $ 1,000,000.00 ( 1988 dollars= about $2,500,000.00 current dollars) by 1990 she was restored to like new condition and ready to do the honors pulling excursions out of the Detroit area for Mr. Kughn who had also bought the Lionel Corporation and would use the 2100 as his promotion tool. Sadly, his attorneys convinced him that the liability issue was too big and the order was given to sell her. At auction she sold for $ 312,000.00 in 1995 to a Canadian Thomas Payne who installed a rube Goldberg oil firing set-up he designed that was an abject failure. After a series of totally failed excursions run out of Tacoma, Washington she was hauled off to a storage field in central Washington state where she sat forlorn until 2 years ago when along came the Cavalry in the form of the American Steam Railroad ( ASR) who convinced the owner who got her title from Payne when he defaulted on his loan ( with the engine as collateral) to lease her to them, pay the costs of flatcaring her to Cleveland,Ohio where they had an appropriate shop in which to restore her to service and a place to run her. With this weeks news that ASR and landlord Midwest are not getting along well it's my hope that the 2 entities can find common ground and get back to the business of seeing the 2100 comne back to a useful life. There's always 2 sides to every story so let's hope that none of the issues involved in this spat are beyond resolving. It would be a shame for ASR to have gone to all this effort for naught. IMHO-Ross Rowland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chuck Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 There's more... Filed March 3, 2017 in the Municipal Court of Cleveland, Ohio. Looks like American Steam Railroad ("ASR"), the lessees of Reading 2100 are being evicted from the roundhouse in Cleveland by its current lessee, Midwest Railway Preservation Society, Inc. The case number is 2017 CVG 003164 Docket can be found at the Cleveland Municipal Court website: https://eservices.cmcoh.org/eservices/home.page.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman4449 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Sharing a link Chuck sent me yesterday on 2100 restoration. Please donate! Even every $10.00 helps! http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/05/10-restoring-reading-t1-2100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman4449 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Update for Feb 2020. Donate $10.00 and sponsor a staybolt!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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