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	Reading Viaduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The viaduct heads north from Reading Terminal and forks, with a spur heading northwest to the old mainline to Reading, Pennsylvania, and the main viaduct continuing north, merging with the current SEPTA line.
		The Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1888, leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway on May 1, 1891, and soon began construction.
		The main line of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway (originally the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad) came into Philadelphia on the southwest side of the Schuylkill River and crossed at a point northwest of downtown (this line is now used only by freight).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reading_Viaduct (356 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century
		By the close of the nineteenth century, many Americans across the nation read about the latest struggle between coal companies and miners by the light of a coal-gas lamp and in the warmth of a coal-fueled furnace, in a house stocked with goods brought to them by coal-fired locomotives.
		For example, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's margin of profit increased from $0.88 per ton of coal in 1861 to $1.72 per ton in 1865.
		In 1878, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shipped three million tons of bituminous coal from mines in Maryland and from the northern coalfields of the new state of West Virginia.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/adams.industry.coal.us (3908 words)

	The Histoical Society of Berks County - The Reading Railroad Massacre
		Moral outrage at Gowen and The Reading was intensified as newly laid-off brakemen and machinists swelled the ranks of restively unemployed railroad men, and as yet unpaid strikebreakers were issued wages in an apparent effort to buy their loyalty.
		Reading's citizenry were strongly sympathetic to their strikers and unemployed, the Chief of Police estimating as the storm gathered that "some two-thirds of the city seemed to sympathize with the men."
		Another mistake that tends to inflame the history of all this is that the Reading Railroad brought in armed members of the infamous Pinkerton Detectives, apparently because railroad executives had used Pinkertons in the hard coal region's labor troubles.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/railroad.html (3293 words)

	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PA) and the history of the railroads in the Delaware River Valley
		The first railroad to have passenger service from Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, which in 1832, started service between 9th and Green Streets in Philadelphia and Germantown.
		By the 1870's, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was the largest corporation in the world, with a capital of $170,000,000.
		The profitable Pennsylvania Railroad, which had the leading service to the Midwest, tried to cash-in on the Anthracite industry by building a "Schuylkill" branch in 1884 that paralleled the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad into the coal regions.
	membrane.com /philanet/Philadelphia/railroads (1301 words)

	Early Railroad Transportation
		Application having been made to the Legislature for a charter for a railroad company to ply between Philadelphia and Norristown (See stock certificate for this railroad), an act was passed on February 17, 1831, incorporating the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown railroad.
		The original object of the company was to construct a railroad from Peter's Island, four miles from Philadelphia, where connection was made with the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad to Reading, a distance of fifty-four miles.
		The Philadelphia Traction Company gave notice that on and after the first of April the fare on all lines controlled by the company would be five cents for a single ride, with privilege of transfer at certain points and additional charge of two cents for transfer at other points formerly freely given.
	www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/railroad.htm (4242 words)

	Historical Society of Berks County - The Railroad Strike of 1877 in Reading
		Reading was just one of the battlefields of this brief war, along with Baltimore, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and many more; but its experience is rather typical.
		Through his control of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad he came to dominate the anthracite industry and with it place a section of eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania almost totally within his economic control.
		Reading happened to be the home of a strong branch of the trainmen's union.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/strike1877.html (6001 words)

	THE CATAWISSA RAILROAD — 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Catawissa Railroad, with the roads directly connected with it, for one hundred and nineteen miles passes through the valleys and over the mountains of the Blue Ridge; commencing at Port Clinton, on the line of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and terminating at Williamsport, the county seat of Lycoming County.
		The lower portion of the road is that of the Little Schuylkill Railroad Coal and Navigation Company, which is principally engaged in the transportation of coal from the Tamaqua District, being an important feeder to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
		The routes from New York are by the New Jersey Central Railroad to Easton, Pennsylvania, thence by the Lehigh Valley and Quaquake Valley railroads to Quaquake Junction; or by the same to Easton, by the East Pennsylvania Railroad to Reading, Pennsylvania, thence to Port Clinton.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/catawiss.Html (3426 words)

	RDG Co.: A Brief History
		Reading Company (pronounced "Reding"), a name remembered mainly as a railroad, was in its heyday a multifaceted industrial giant.
		Originally established as The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1833 to transport anthracite coal, the pioneering 94-mile line evolved into a mighty corporation serving eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
		The Reading Lines, as they came to be known, were actually a conglomeration of a number of successor railroads.
	www.readingrailroad.org /reading/rdg_history.html (466 words)

	The Reading Railroad
		The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was chartered in 1833 to serve the coal fields in Pottstown and deliver coal to the city of Reading.
		The Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad and Pennsylvania Reading Coal and Iron were ordered separated under a Supreme Court ruling, in 1924 the Pennsylvania Reading Coal and Iron became an independent line and Reading Railroad became the operating name.
		The Reading had controlled the Atlantic City railroad and the Pennsylvania was in competition in the Philadelphia to Atlantic City run.
	www.jcrhs.org /reading.html (534 words)

	Steamtown NHS: Special History Study
		On December 31, 1923, the Reading Company merged a number of subsidiaries such as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad into itself, and thus became an actual operating railroad company, not merely a holding company, a practice that was somewhat unusual.
		Reading Company Locomotive No. 2124 became a nationally famous engine, because of its use on railroad-enthusiast excursions, the famous "Reading Rambles" of the 1960s, when she and sister engines hauled trainloads of people at a time when steam engines had nearly disappeared from the nation's railroads.
		The Reading Company also tested the locomotives' capacity to handle coal trains with a test train of 200 cars, after which the superintendent of motive power and rolling equipment determined that the optimum limit should be set at 150 cars.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/steamtown/shs2s.htm (1859 words)

	JeffPo's Reading Railroad Lantern Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The red globe is cast with P and R, which stands for Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, the previous name of the Reading Company.
		The Philadelphia and Reading created the Reading Company to own on paper during the 1890s, trying to ward off the government's effort to break up monopolies.
		The Reading entered bankruptcy in 1971 and its operations were taken over as part of the federally financed CONRAIL in1976.
	www.mindspring.com /~jeffpo/reading.htm (208 words)

	The Central Railroad of New Jersey
		In 1879 the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad acquired the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad and connected with the CNJ at Bound Brook.
		The Vineland Railroad from Atsion to Vineland and from Vineland to Bayside in 1871.
		The Toms River Railroad was purchased by the CNJ in 1881 and operated as part of the NJS division, the Toms River and Waretown Railroad Company extended it to Waretown, in 1893 it was extended to Barnegat.
	jcrhs.org /cnj.html (1395 words)

	Philly NRHS - Reading Company History
		Unlike the PRR lines in the Philadelphia area, which rapidly separate upon leaving downtown, the physical character of the Reading's principal lines was of a "branch and trunk" nature.
		The railroad's main freight yard in Philadelphia was Port Richmond, on the Delaware River.
		Many previously-leased railroads which the Philadelphia & Reading RR had taken over - as well as the original P&R itself - were now providing service as the Reading Company.
	www.trainweb.org /phillynrhs/rdg.html (1300 words)

	Reading Railroad
		Reading Company, a name remembered mainly as a railroad, was in its heyday a multifaceted industrial giant.
		Originally established as The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in 1833 to transport anthracite coal, the pioneering 94-mile line evolved into a mighty corporation serving eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
		The North East Pennsylvania RR Perkiomen RR The Philadelphia and Chester Valley RR The Philadelphia, Newtown, and New York RR Pickering Valley RR The Port Reading RR Reading and Columbia RR Stony Creek RR The Williams Valley RR The Delaware River Ferry Co. of New Jersey
	www.trainweb.org /pt/reading.html (457 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		WILLIAM CURNOW, station agent of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, was born in Llewellyn, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1852, and is the eldest son of Richard and Sarah Curnow.
		The Doctor's father occupied the position of superintendent of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company fifteen years, and in 1889 was a member of the State board of mining examiners.
		JOHN CARL, superintendent of collieries, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, was born in Prussia, October 2, 1835, son of Henry and Catharine (Kline) Carl, who emigrated to America in 1853, and settled at St. Clair, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/honcpa22.html (20986 words)

	John Pritiskutch Reproductions - Lebanon (History of Lebanon County - Philadelphia and Reading Railroad)
		The company was chartered by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, April 4th, 1833, to build a road from Philadelphia to Reading a distance of 58 miles.
		This road passes through the entire County of Lebanon, east and west, and since it came under the management of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, has been extensively improved, and is in a very prosperous condition.
		The Lebanon and Tremont Railroad, 42 miles in length, extending from Lebanon to Tremont, is also under their management, and over its lines the large quantities of coal pass, which are annually needed in the manufacture of Iron, Lime and Brick, as well as for domestic uses, and various other manufacturing purposes.
	www.anthracitemaps.com /members/bpritz/home.nsf/htmlname/lebhistphilyrdg (745 words)

	PHMC Doc Heritage: Pennsylvania's Transportation System: the Canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A thirty-seven mile system of railroads and ten inclined plains, it was completed in 1834, just in time to allow Pennsylvania's canal system to open during that same year.
		This canal was leased to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company for 999 years in 1870 and continued to operate commercially until 1931.
		The Pennsylvania Canal Company was formed by the PRR in 1867, and a fair amount of freight was handled by various canal systems in the state until roughly 1875, when the business began a steady decline.
	www.docheritage.state.pa.us /documents/canals.asp (782 words)

	1896
		The old passenger station of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Thirty-second and Market Streets was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of nearly half a million dollars, of which more than $300.000 was on rolling stock.
		The property of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company was sold at auction under the decree of the United States Circuit Court in the foreclosure suit brought by the trustees of the general mortgage bongs, The total of the bids was $20,500,000.
		The Philadelphia and reading Railroad Company, the successor of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, organized with Joseph S. Harris as President, and these Directors: George F. Baer, of Reading; Charles H. Coster and Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York; Thomas McKean, George C. Thomas and J. Lowber Welsh.
	www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/timeline/1896.htm (855 words)

	Schuylkill Valley Metro - History
		The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was established in 1833 to transport anthracite coal from the many mines around the Reading area and north.
		The Philadelphia and Reading merged with the PGandN in 1870.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was a formidable competitor to the Reading, and in 1884 established train service to Manayunk, Norristown, and Reading on their Schuylkill Valley branch.
	www.svmetro.com /svm/history (599 words)

	ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE MINEHILL AND SCHUYLKILL HAVEN RAILROAD COMPANY: 1844-1864
		The Minehill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company (MSH) was one of the first commercial carrier railroads chartered in the U.S. The stock traded on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the company managers faithfully issued annual reports to the stockholders beginning in 1828.
		MSH managers agreed to lease the railroad to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad for an annual fee of 8% of total assets, also during 1863.
		Railroading was the first industry to have a large fixed asset base, to require extensive outside capital, and be regulated by governments.
	acct.tamu.edu /giroux/minehill.html (2631 words)

	SEPTA
		The Philadelphia region played a vital role in the development of commuter rail systems in the United States.
		One of the earliest passenger train services was operated in 1832 by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, which later became part of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, known by many as simply the Reading Railroad.
		SEPTA and the City began construction on the long-awaited underground tunnel to connect Suburban Station with Reading Terminal, as well as a new station to replace the aging Reading facility.
	www.septa.org /inside/history/commuter_rail.html (272 words)

	Rainroading in Saint Clair
		John Tucker was President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and also became President of the Mill Creek and Mine Railroad in 1844.
		Secondly, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad expanded its tracks to connect with the Mill Creek Mine Railroad allowing cars loaded with coal at the collieries to run to Port Carbon and then onto Philadelphia without having to be reloaded at the canals in Port Carbon.
		The Reading Railroad continued to expand and by 1880, in addition to the depot, there was a repair shop, an office, and yards.
	members.fortunecity.com /stclair2/railroads.htm (1514 words)

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		The Philadelphia and Reading railroad was chartered in 1833 to serve the coal fields in Pottsville and deliver coal to the city of Reading.
		They were also the last Reading steam operating in revenue service, when the Pennsy, short of power, leased some for its needs.
		These books entitled "The Reading Railroad: History of a Coal Age Empire" Volumes 1 and 2 are published by Garrigues House Publishing.
	members.tripod.com /njrails/20th_Century/Reading/Reading.htm (892 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Schuylkill Rover Symposium: proceedings of a symposium, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, September 24 and 25, 1980.
		The Water supply of the city of Philadelphia: by a proposed aqueduct from Norristown Dam, and the acquisition of the works of the Schuylkill Navigation Co.
		Philadelphia: Murphy Levy Wurman, Venturi and Rauch, 1974.
	www.web-savvy.com /river/Schuylkill/bibliography.html (2133 words)

	Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections
		The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. was organized in order to ensure its parent company, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, a dominant position in the transportation of anthracite coal from the Schuylkill fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
		In 1913 the United States government brought suit against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, claiming that its ownership of both the Coal and Iron Company and the Railroad were a monopoly of trade.
		The bulk of the surviving records of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and its parent company, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, are located in the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
	www.americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8282.htm (1783 words)

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