2102 was rebuilt by the Reading's own locomotive shops as a 4-8-4 "Northern" in September 1945, and it was used for pulling heavy coal trains for the railroad until being retired from revenue service in 1956.
2102 was sold to Steam Tours Inc. of Akron, Ohio, and it spend the next several years pulling various fan trips in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
In 1985, it was sold again to Andy Muller to operate on his Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad alongside 4-6-2 No.
In February 2016, the locomotive began to be restored back to operating condition, and then it returned to service, in April 2022, pulling R&N's excursions between Reading and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
When the Reading needed more heavier and powerful locomotives during the end of World War II, they brought thirty of their Consolidations Nos 2020–2049, including No.
2102 was retired from revenue service, and shortly afterward, it was sold to Carpenter Steel Corporation for use to provide steam for its plant.
[3] In the Fall of 1960, the Carpenter Steel plant suffered a catastrophic fire, badly damaging No.
2102 was sold back to the Reading Company, which one year prior had decided to spare a few of its T-1s from the scrapper's torch for use on their final excursion fan trips between Wayne Junction in Philadelphia and Shamokin, known as the "Iron Horse Rambles".
Its main storage site under Steam Tours' ownership would be at Milwaukee Junction in Detroit, Michigan, which was the same location where Grand Trunk Western USRA 4-6-2 “Pacific” No.
302, with smoke deflectors, a recessed headlight, raised "bug eye" marker lights and a D&H-style number board.
On September 22, 1983, the 2102 was fired up and was used to pull a freight train south of Pittsburgh, and footage of it was recorded specifically for the 1984 romance film Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage and Robert Mitchum, and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
2102 travelled to the ex-Reading locomotive shops to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the debut of the Reading T-1 class.
Andrew J. Muller, Jr., owner of the Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad (BM&R),[14] brought his steam locomotive for the event as well: Ex-Gulf, Mobile and Northern 4-6-2 "Pacific" No.
During the event, Andy Muller, who had always dreamed of owning a Reading T-1, made the financially distressed owners of No.
In 1987, it was sold to Andrew J. Muller, Jr. to power tourist trains on the newly formed Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad based out of Temple, Pennsylvania.
2102's last run in the 20th century occurred on October 27, 1991, after pulling a special 12-car train called The Anthracite Express to Tamaqua, in celebration of the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Little Schuylkill Navigation Railroad.
2102 would remain in storage out of public view inside the Port Clinton shop, but occasionally, it would be brought outside for static display in front of the RBM&N station in Temple.
[16] Muller spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild the locomotive, with additional funds raised through ticket sales.
[20] All components, including the boiler, injectors, feedwater heater, and stoker, were found to be in good working order.
Test runs in the earlier half of 2022 were to Reading, Tamaqua, and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
2102 performed another test run from Reading to Jim Thorpe and return, pulling a long line of fifty empty coal hopper cars.
[28][29] Afterwards, the locomotive pulled more Iron Horse Ramble excursions on July 2, and on August 13, it double headed with No.
2102 pulled its first Autumn Leaf excursion, but was sidelined on October 8 due to firebox issues, which was repaired four days later in time to continue pulling the remaining scheduled Autumn Leaf excursions on October 29, and November 6, 2022.
2102 pulled its first winter season Iron Horse Rambles excursion from Reading to Jim Thrope and back.