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2 unusual facts about Reading Company


Hensingersville, Pennsylvania

However, that same year, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway was located several miles north in what later became Alburtis.

Reading Anthracite Company

P. & R. C. & I. changed its corporate title in 1956 to The Philadelphia & Reading Corporation, of which Reading Anthracite Company was one of its many operating divisions.


Chesapeake and Ohio 614

In 1979, there was a roundhouse fire that damaged Reading (RDG) 4-8-4 2101, owned by Ross Rowland.

Fox Chase Line

The line, opened on February 2, 1878, as the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, was built to block the construction of the parallel National Railway, later home to the Reading Railroad's (RDG) Newark, New Jersey service.

Norristown Transportation Center

It opened in 1989 to replace the older Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100) terminus one block away at Main and Swede Streets, and integrated the former Reading Company DeKalb Street Norristown railroad station (built 1933) into its structure.

West Chester Railroad

Ex-Reading Company (RDG) MUs # 9107, 9109, 9114, 9117 and 9124 were built between 1931 and 1932 by Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware.

Wingohocking Creek

The southerly branch, Wingohocking Creek proper, followed the path taken today by SEPTA's Chestnut Hill East rail line (built by the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad in 1833 and extended by the successor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the 1850s) between Sedgwick and Wister stations.


see also

Charles Ewing

Charles H. Ewing (c. 1866–1935), president of the Reading Company, 1932–1935