The Schuylkill Navigation Company
The Schuylkill Navigation Company

Author: North American, Philadelphia

Publisher:

Published: 1852

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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"The articles which compose the body of the following pamphlet, were originally published as leading editorials in the North America."--Introductory note

Reading Trains and Trolleys
Reading Trains and Trolleys

Author: Philip K. Smith

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738535142

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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.

The Wreck of the Penn Central
The Wreck of the Penn Central

Author: Joseph R. Daughen

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781893122086

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It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.