Pikachu Ketchum

## History

Pikachu Ketchum Was Built In 1925 By The Baldwin Locomotive Works In Philadelphia Pennsylvania For The Philadelphia And Reading (Which Will Become The Reading Railroad) He Was Young Locomotive As a Pichu As Well You Know It He Was A I10sa 2-8-0 Consolidation And Was Numbered To 2000.

The I10sa Consolidations Worked Fine But Until In The World War II The Reading Is Looking For More And Bigger Locomotives Until The 1940s The Reading Sent One Of 30 Of The I10sas To The Reading Company Shops To Be Rebuilt, They Made Them Bigger, They Extended Them to Evolve From Pichu the Reading 2-8-0 Consolidations Into Pikachu the 4-8-4 Northerns Given Them As The Legendary Reading T-1s They Will Know In Love Today.

Pikachu Was The Oldest Of The T-1 Kind And He And His Siblings Worked On The Reading Until 1957 When Diesels Took Over And The T-1s Were Retired And Sold For Scrap But Four Of Them Had Survive And That Is Pikachu, Pikachu's Cousins and Partners 2102, 2124 And Finally Basically The Reading Didn't Just Preserved Them Mainly They Kept Them For Themselves For Public Excursion Better Known As The Iron Horse Rambles Or The Reading Rambles Which Started In 1959 To 1964 Pikachu Ketchum Was Restored In Operation In 1960 And Pulled The Rambles Excursions Along With Richard And Nemi While Carmen Was A Parts Downer In 1964 Pikachu Was Taken Out Of Service And He And Carmen Were Sold To The Striegel Supply & Equipment In Baltimore Maryland Were They Sat Until 1975.

When Ross Rowland Purchased Those Two T-Hogs For His American Freedom Train Project, Using Carmen For Restoration Pikachu Became A Parts Downer Locomotive For Spare Parts,

Soon In The 1980s, Pikachu Has Been Stored For Decades In Hagerstown Out Of Service As He Did As In 1988.

He Was Purchased By Richard Kughn The Owner And CEO Of Lionel Trains Long Ago Pikachu Had Been In Storage In Hagerstown Maryland.

Since He Spent Some Time Out Of Service Since He Became A Downer Locomotive When His Engine Parts Were Given To Carmen Anyways Kughn Tested Pikachu In 1988 By Using Ofelia's Tool Car And Observation Car And He Made His Test Run In Hagerstown Maryland But His Time With Kughn Wasn't 'til Last Any Longer Until In 1990,

He Was Given To Jerry Joe Jacobson For His Ohio Central Railroad Where He Spent Some Quality Time Stored There Outside Of The Shops But Mostly Fired Up For Excursions In Ohio.

But Soon In 2000 When Pikachu Ketchum Was Bought By Thomas Payne Who Moved Him To St. Thomas Ontario And Suddenly Repainted Him In A Really Bad Scheme Which Pikachu Angrily Blushed With His Sparks On His Cheeks And Felt Very Angry With A Terrible Design.

Later, Payne's Plan To Run Pikachu Ketchum On The Rocky Mountain Excursion In Canada But It Got Delayed Into January 2026 Before Pikachu Ketchum Returned To Canada And Pikachu Ketchum Returned To America And This Time Pikachu Ran Long Excursions On The Golden State Railroad In Tacoma Washington Through 2006 To 2008 Until He Was Placed In Storage In Washington Feeling Relieved After He Worse Is Over Until 2019.

When Sir Topham Hatt Brought Him From Richland Washington To The CSX Rails On The Virginia Tennessee and Western Railroad To Reconverted Pikachu Ketchum Back To Coal With A Better Livery And Renumbered As 25 And Relettered Virginia Tennessee And Western To Meet Eevee, Thomas and Percy Again Until The End of September 2020. In October 2020, During 2020 VT&W's Opening Night, Pikachu Was About To Cry In Joy As He Reunited Thomas And Percy Once Again. As Of Today, Pikachu Ketchum Was Currently Operational At The Virginia Tennessee And Western Railroad Hauling Excursions And Freight.

In October 9th, 2023, Sir Topham Hatt acquired the former Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Cars including Old Santa Fe 4-8-4's Bell from the scrapped Santa Fe 3756 and a Santa Fe Passenger, Observation and Post Car to use for Pikachu Ketchum for his Upcoming Excursions Before Pikachu Ketchum Will Pull On A Christmas Excursions On The Ohio Scenic Railway in November to January. After Pikachu Ketchum pulling on the Holiday Trains in Ohio, an announcement for him to go to New Jersey Scenic Railway to haul excursion across Central New Jersey and Western Pennsylvania on the former Pennsylvania Railroad, Central of New Jersey and Baltimore and Ohio mainline will occur this year. This marks Pikachu Ketchum's first northeastern tour to Pennsylvania and New Jersey from Ohio after pulling on a 2023 Ohio Scenic Holiday Train.

## Basis

Pikachu is basis of the real-life model of the Reading 4-8-4 Northern T-1 Class were built by the 1920s as 2-8-0 Consolidations before rebuilding into the legendary Reading T-1s and worked on the freight service at the Reading Railroad until the diesels took over in 1956. After the retirement, all but 4 of them were scrapped during to the preservation.