Reading Trains and Trolleys - Hardcover

Smith, Philip K; Historical, Society Of Berks County; Historical Society Of Berks County

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1531620396 ISBN 13: 9781531620394

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip K. Smith grew up in the village of Berne along the main line of the Reading Company. He is a member of the Hawk Mountain Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and the Train Collectors Association. He has written and edited Greenberg's guides for toy trains as well as articles for The Historical Review of Berks County, O Gauge Railroading, and Classic Toy Trains.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1531620396
• ISBN 13: 9781531620394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130