No. 2124 was originally constructed by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in December 1924 as an I-10sa class 2-8-0 "Consolidation", and it was originally numbered No. 2024. Beginning in 1945, Reading Company (RDG) began rebuilding thirty of their I-10sa's at their
Reading, Pennsylvania shops and converted them into T-1 class 4-8-4 "Northerns", and they were renumbered as the 2100 series. No. 2124 pulled its last
Rambles excursion on October 22, 1961, before its flue time expired the following year, and the RDG replaced the locomotive with another T-1,
No. 2102, in pulling the trains. No. 2124 was subsequently sold to locomotive collector and the owner of Blount Seafood,
F. Nelson Blount, and he moved the T-1 in July 1963 to his
Steamtown, U.S.A. museum in
North Walpole, New Hampshire. The museum was later relocated across the
Connecticut River to
Bellows Falls, Vermont. The locomotive was displayed in Vermont until Steamtown moved to
Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1983–84. In 1986, Steamtown was taken over by the National Park Service and was renamed as Steamtown National Historic Site. No. 2124 was put on display near the entrance to the park as one of the first things visitors would see. ==Appearance in
From the Terrace==