Description: Reading Trains and Trolleys, Pennsylvania, Images of Rail, Paperback Reading Trains and Trolleys documents the impact of railroad and trolley networks on Reading and adjoining communities.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 Schuylkill 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.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738535142
Book Title: Reading Trains and Trolleys
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Railroads / History, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Transportation, Photography, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Author: Not Available
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Images of Rail Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
