Author: Philip K. Smith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rail transportation has been part of daily life in Reading since the 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the good old days of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway (reorganized as the Reading Company in 1923), the Schuykill Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, the Neversink Mountain Railroad, the Reading City Passenger Railway, and the Reading Traction Company. The Reading Railroad gained widespread recognition as a property for sale on the Monopoly board, but the history of trains and trolleys in Reading goes well beyond that iconography. Reading Trains and Trolleys documents the impact of railroad and trolley networks on Reading and adjoining communities, including photographs of the interior of the locomotive shop and the carbarn at Tenth and Exeter Streets, views of the Walnut Street yard before and after the Outer Station was constructed, and views from the Swinging Bridge, which spanned the yard by the Outer Station. The Historical Society of Berks County's collection of rail photographs includes many never-before-published images of diverse scenes in and around Reading.
Reading Trains and Trolleys
Author: Philip K. Smith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rail transportation has been part of daily life in Reading since the 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the good old days of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway (reorganized as the Reading Company in 1923), the Schuykill Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, the Neversink Mountain Railroad, the Reading City Passenger Railway, and the Reading Traction Company. The Reading Railroad gained widespread recognition as a property for sale on the Monopoly board, but the history of trains and trolleys in Reading goes well beyond that iconography. Reading Trains and Trolleys documents the impact of railroad and trolley networks on Reading and adjoining communities, including photographs of the interior of the locomotive shop and the carbarn at Tenth and Exeter Streets, views of the Walnut Street yard before and after the Outer Station was constructed, and views from the Swinging Bridge, which spanned the yard by the Outer Station. The Historical Society of Berks County's collection of rail photographs includes many never-before-published images of diverse scenes in and around Reading.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rail transportation has been part of daily life in Reading since the 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the good old days of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway (reorganized as the Reading Company in 1923), the Schuykill Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, the Neversink Mountain Railroad, the Reading City Passenger Railway, and the Reading Traction Company. The Reading Railroad gained widespread recognition as a property for sale on the Monopoly board, but the history of trains and trolleys in Reading goes well beyond that iconography. Reading Trains and Trolleys documents the impact of railroad and trolley networks on Reading and adjoining communities, including photographs of the interior of the locomotive shop and the carbarn at Tenth and Exeter Streets, views of the Walnut Street yard before and after the Outer Station was constructed, and views from the Swinging Bridge, which spanned the yard by the Outer Station. The Historical Society of Berks County's collection of rail photographs includes many never-before-published images of diverse scenes in and around Reading.
The Schuylkill Navigation Company
Author: North American, Philadelphia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
"The articles which compose the body of the following pamphlet, were originally published as leading editorials in the North America."--Introductory note
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
"The articles which compose the body of the following pamphlet, were originally published as leading editorials in the North America."--Introductory note
Report of the Operations of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Author: Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Pilot and Philadelphia & Reading Railway Men
The Boys' Book of Locomotives
Author: Joseph Russell Howden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Report of the Operations of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Departmental Records
Author: Bengal (India). Agriculture and Industries Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Wreck of the Penn Central
Author: Joseph R. Daughen
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.