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Reading Trains and Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail)

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Rail transportation has been a part of day by day life in Reading for the reason that 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the nice 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 at the Monopoly board, however the history of trains and trolleys in Reading goes well past that iconography. Reading Trains and Trolleys documents the affect 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 used to be constructed, and views from the Swinging Bridge, which spanned the yard by the Outer Station. The Historical Society of Berks County’s number of rail photographs includes many never-before-published images of diverse scenes in and around Reading.

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