Bibliograph

Reading trains and trolleys, Philip K. Smith with the Historical Society of Berks County

Type

Label

Reading trains and trolleys, Philip K. Smith with the Historical Society of Berks County

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading trains and trolleys

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Philip K. Smith with the Historical Society of Berks County

Series statement

Images of rail

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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