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	Reading Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its Philadelphia terminus was at the state-owned Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad on the west side of the Schuylkill River, from which it ran east on the PandC over the Columbia Bridge and onto the city-owned City Railroad to a depot at the southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets.
		The Port Kennedy Railroad, a short branch to quarries at Port Kennedy, was leased in 1870.
		The Port Reading Railroad was chartered in 1890 and opened in 1892, running east from the New York line near Bound Brook to a new port - Port Reading - on the Arthur Kill near Perth Amboy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reading_Railroad (1062 words)

	The Histoical Society of Berks County - The Reading Railroad Massacre
		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."
		On the night of the Reading Massacre, labor radical leaders in Chicago were actively exhorting a gathering of 6000 to seize and harness The Strike's hitherto spontaneous momentum.
		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)

	Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
		The Reading Company set aside four T-1 Northerns that were used on the very popular 1960s excursions known as the "Reading Rambles." T-1 #2101 went on to greater fame as one of three steam engines to haul the 1976 Freedom Train.
		Locomotive #485 arrived on the Reading in June, 1952, one of 33 ALCO 1600hp RS-3's purchased during a diesel-buying spree.
		It and its siblings were the first "road-switcher" diesel locomotives purchased by the Reading.
	www.readingrailroad.org (258 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.
		This road connected to the Reading in the south and the Jersey Central in the north.
		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)

	JeffPo's Reading Railroad Lantern Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The red globe is cast with P and R, which stands for Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, the previous name of the Reading Company.
		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 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)

	Special-- July 15: Reading Railroad, link to L&NE, goes aglimmer any day now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Reading Co. was created in 1896 after a reorganization of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (P&R), which had been chartered April 4, 1833.
		Reading Anthracite Co., Pottsville, is the surviving successor of the P&RC&I. The railroad went downhill after World War II, its fortunes yoked to the declining coal industry, hard hit by the ocean of oil spilling into the United States from overseas.
		Reading took good care of its property until the end and its lines were in better condition than its competitors.
	archives.pottsville.com /archives/2000/Jul/15/E424587A.htm (874 words)

	Reading Railroad
		Reading Company, a name remembered mainly as a railroad, was in its heyday a multifaceted industrial giant.
		The Reading Lines, as they came to be known, were actually a conglomeration of a number of successor railroads.
		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)

	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)

	Reading Terminal Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reading's new train shed would be different from all others in that it had a gastronomic bazaar tucked away in its cellar.
		Soon after opening, the new state-of-the-art Reading Terminal Market would boast that its refrigeration facility was by far the biggest in Philadelphia with its half-million cubic feet of space and 52 separate rooms, each cooled to individual temperatures, 15 - 25 degrees for meat and poultry, 34 degrees for fruits and vegetables.
		A proud Reading president, Agnew T. Dice, bragged that the railroad's unique food emporium had won nationwide fame, touting that it was the biggest market in Pennsylvania, and the largest under one roof in the country.
	readingterminalmarket.org /about.php (1500 words)

	Reading, Pennsylvania 250th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The population of Reading was 78,380 in 1990.
		The Reading company began as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, chartered in 1883 and opened from Philadelphia though Reading, to Pottsville, PA., in 1842.
		Readings passenger business was almost all suburban and its freight business was also largely short haul.
	home.earthlink.net /~scouters2/reading.html (1403 words)

	MSW Management -- Beyond the Pail: Reading Red'ing
		Remember Reading Railroad from the game of"Monopoly?" It was always my favorite acquisition in my unrelenting struggle to drive opponents into bankruptcy.
		With the welter of haulers coming and going virtually every day, it is relatively easy for, say, a nonresident owner of a small number of rental units to take garbage into his or her own hands or even for very small haulers to improve their competitive edge by tipping where there are no fees.
		Reading’s voters, however, probably in sympathy with the smaller "underdog" haulers—another Yankee trait—defeated this plan for systematic citywide refuse collection by voting down a referendum in May 1998.
	www.forester.net /msw_0001_beyond.html (1053 words)

	Philly NRHS - Reading Company History
		The railroad's main freight yard in Philadelphia was Port Richmond, on the Delaware River.
		The railroad decided that best way to increase overall track capacity while making the service more attractive (and profitable) was to electrify the lines.
		One of the highlights of Reading passenger service was the inauguration of its streamlined train which first ran in 1937 and was named the Crusader in 1938.
	www.trainweb.org /phillynrhs/rdg.html (1300 words)

	TRAINS on Railway Parcel Stamps and Railway Letter Stamps of the World
		Reading Railroad is a square in the Monopoly game and was also a railroad in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
		The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad was opened 1842 to transport anthracite coal from Schuylkill County to tidewater Philadelphia.
		He was made general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in charge of local traffic in 1913, and had been passenger traffic manager since 1920, when the Federal control of railroads ended.
	alphabetilately.com /TOC/parcels-9.html (821 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Darby Creek, Pennsylvania
		Since 1980, the Reading Railroad Bridge has had the tracks removed on the north and south sides of the bridge and is secured in the full open position to allow marine traffic to pass.
		The regulation would require the draw of the Reading Railroad Bridge to be left in the full open position at all times in accordance with 33 CFR 117.41.
		For the Reading Railroad Bridge, the proposed regulation will provide for the reasonable needs of navigation since the bridge is maintained in the open position for vessel passage at all times.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/2001/October/Day-10/a25425.htm (3316 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan
		Read Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky aloud to students.
		Guide students to read an expository text at their instructional level (see the Booklist for the Underground Railroad).
		Have students read the lyrics for the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd." This site also includes an explanation of the lyrics and the song's tune.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=231 (2235 words)

	Early Railroad Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		After the State Railroad was relocated, in 1850, the old line from Thirteenth and Callowhill Streets, Philadelphia, to Peters' Island, was purchased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
	www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/special/railroad.htm (4250 words)

	Aboard the Underground Railroad-- Bethel AME Church, Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A pillar of Reading's fl community for 160 years, the Bethel AME Church stands as a testament to the hard work and accomplishments of free African Americans during the era of slavery.
		During the years leading up to the Civil War, the congregation of Bethel was active in the Underground Railroad and members often harbored fugitive slaves escaping northward.
		Jacob Ross, one of the founding members of the church, was himself a runaway slave from Virginia who had found support in the local fl community and decided to settle in Reading.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/underground/pa3.htm (236 words)

	reading railroad - reading railroad Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Philadelphia and Reading railroad was chartered in 1833 to serve the coal fields in Pottsville and deliver coal to the city of Reading.
		Read it Aloud by Monty and Laurie Haas of Reading-Railroad
		Reading and Northern Railroad is a regional railroad in eastern Pennsylvania that operates over 300 miles of track.
	totally-trains.info /reading-railroad (1040 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.
		On January 1, 1924, the P and R C and I became independent, and Reading Company became the railroad's operating name.
		• The North East Pennsylvania RR • Perkiomen RR • The Philadelphia and Chester Valley RRThe Philadelphia, Newtown, and New York RR • Pickering Valley RR • The Port Reading RRReading and Columbia RR • Stony Creek RR • The Williams Valley RR • The Delaware River Ferry Co. of New Jersey
	www.readingrailroad.org /reading/rdg_history.html (466 words)

	Reading & Northern History
		The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad, with corporate headquarters in Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, is a privately held railroad company serving nine counties in Eastern Pennsylvania.
		The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad began serving customers in 1983 as the Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad on the company's original 13-mile shortline connecting Temple to Hamburg, PA. Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) abandoned the line and, as a result, the line came under the control of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
		Known as the "Reading Cluster" the trackage was comprised of former Reading Company track extending along the Schuylkill River Valley from Reading to the heart of the Anthracite coal fields in Schuylkill County.
	www.readingnorthern.com /history.shtml (682 words)

	Northpinellas: Reading railroad
		And out front, there was a blue tablecloth, along with a construction paper tree stump and a plastic cutout of a kettle hanging from a garment rack, with a ball of fire-orange tissue resting below it.
		It's reading in motion," said Tyson's mother, Danene, who came early to set the scene.
		Benitez told Brandes, who was the principal at the time, that she was looking for an activity to bring the story alive for her students.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/05/17/Northpinellas/Reading_railroad.shtml (736 words)

	Reading Railroad Valley Forge
		View of the Reading Yard 1986, Reading, Pennsylvania.
		Reading #2124 originally built by Baldwin Locomotive Works during the 1920's as a 2-8-0, the Reading rebuilt # 2124 as a 4-8-4 Northern in January 1947.
		The Schuylkill Valley MetroRail is a proposed 62-mile light rail line connecting Philadelphia to Reading.
	www.jim-frizzell.com /Reading.html (953 words)

	Summertime Reading Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The program is designed to help children realize the rewards of reading by encouraging them to train their imaginations and make reading a part of their daily travels.
		Children who sign up for the program will be given a Summertime Reading Railroad Travel Diary to keep track of the books they read and describe their Reading Railroad adventures.
		Those who reach their final destination by reading three books and sending in their Travel Diary willl be awarded a special certificate and bookmark for their efforts.
	www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/sdpages/marcellino_reading.html (236 words)

	Penn Valley Pictures - Railroad and Historical Videos
		Experience Reading passenger and freight steam operations in Upstate Pennsylvania with this outstanding all-color footage filmed by the late Clarence Weaver in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.
		Penn Valley Pictures is proud to present "Railroads on Parade", the 1939 World's Fair tribute to American Railroads.
		This film will include scenes from the Reading Railroad wreck of the "Williamsport" at Blue Hill in January 1936, the 1936 March flood, and the 1940 flood.
	www.pennvalleypictures.com (234 words)

	Railroad Memorabilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The station was formerly known as "Lafayette" after the French General, Marquis de Lafayette, who stayed at a farmhouse across the street on his way from the battle of Germantown to Valley Forge with George Washington in 1778.
		Reading Railroad EMD and Alco Diesel Locomotives at Rutherford Yard in Pennsylvania 1968.
		In 1846, the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company was formed to transport Pennsylvania anthracite coal, otherwise known as "Black Diamonds." It was renamed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1853.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /guyanhorn/railroad_memorabilia.htm (1396 words)

	EMPLOYEE'S BOOK CAPTURES MAGIC OF CABOOSES
		On a winter day in 1964, 10-year-old John Hall shifted the controls from the engineer's seat of a Reading ALCO RS-3 train locomotive and directed the engine a short distance through the Reading Railroad's Wilmington freight yard.
		In its day, the Reading Company went from Wilmington in the south to Williamsport, Pa., in the west and had traveling rights to go to Jersey City, N.J. In the late 1800s, then known as the Philadelphia and Reading, it was the largest corporation in the world.
		It is available at Mitchell's Trains Toys and Hobbies Inc. in Wilmington, at the Strasburg Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad museums, both in Strasburg, Pa., at the University Bookstore or from John Hall, P.O. Box 281, Newark, DE 19715-0281.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/02/2/employee.html (807 words)

	reading railroad \| Auctions \| Computer Savvy Shopping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge Norristown PA Lionel Monopoly Reading Railroad Caboose (6-52161)
		Reading Railroad Company P and R Steam Locomotive Pa
		Reading Railroad Company #310 Steam Loco 4-6-0 Pa
	www.computer-savvy.info /shop/reading+railroad.html (289 words)

	PA PowerPort
		The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will host READING RAILROAD DAYS on July 1st, 2nd and 3rd from 9:00 am to 5:00pm and July 4 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA.
		An enormous and detailed HO scale model railroad depicting the Reading Railroad will be displayed.
		Philip K. Smith(author of Reading Trains and Trolleys) will give a presentation on Saturday, July 3rd at 2:00 pm on the impact of railroad and trolley networks on Reading and adjoining communities.
	www.state.pa.us /papower/ical/eventDetail_page.asp?date_ID=CECECBCECB83CDCACE (200 words)

	Reading/PRR History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Numerous railroads were begun north of the headwaters of the Schuylkill Canal.
		The 146-mile Catawissa Railroad operated from Mahanoy Junction to West Milton, providing access to the Mahanoy region by joining the northern terminus of the Little Schuylkill with connections to New York and Scranton.
		The LandN would be a profitable one for the railroad, and gave the county rail access to the New Jersey tidewater.
	www.northeast.railfan.net /rbmn_history.html (2717 words)

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