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Chargement... Reading Trains and Trolleyspar Philip K. Smith, Historical Society of Berks County
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book gives a sense of what it was like to ride the Reading and currently to ride the tourist Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern Railroad (the Hawk Mountain line) and the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway with its fall leaf rambles from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe. It brought back memories of riding the Reading to Philadelphia during the Christmas holiday season when I was a child, leaving from the elegant Franklin Street Station. I was also fortunate in the fifties to be able to ride one of the last surviving trolleys on Penn Street.
There is no bibliography and this book does not replace the definitive 2 volume set by Jim Holton, The Reading Railroad or the many books on the history of railroads by Benjamin Bernhart but it is a good place to start and is an enjoyable way to pass an afternoon. ( )