Category: Railroad
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Spring Street Subway
Read more: Spring Street SubwayIn 1909, the city leaders celebrated with much fanfare the opening of the Spring Street Subway, a rail bridge that eliminated a dangerous Reading Railroad crossing – first for pedestrians and later for cars. The Reading Railroad was well established in the area before city engineers considered building the subway. So to construct it, crews…
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Reading’s Outer Station and Swinging Bridge
Read more: Reading’s Outer Station and Swinging BridgeReading’s Outer Station Reading’s Outer Station was opened in 1874 on 6th street between Buttonwood and Greenwich streets. Previously the city’s passenger station was a small waiting and room and ticket office on the northwest corner of 7th & Franklin Street. The Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad was the veins of the newly budding industrial city,…
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Orange Car – Produce
Read more: Orange Car – ProduceThe Orange Car was a fresh fruit and produce business along the Schuylkill River waterfront in Reading PA. Specifically it was located at 30 N. Front Street, at the intersection of Front and Washington. It was right down from Stichter Hardware and Schindlebeck’s Coal Yard. All kinds of fresh fruit and produce were brought here…
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Reading Railroad – Sinking Spring – 1972
Read more: Reading Railroad – Sinking Spring – 1972Below are a few pictures of the main Reading Railroad line tracks that follow 422 out West, in Sinking Spring. These images were taken at the Woodrow Avenue crossing. Notice the old Sinking Spring school building in the background. Also the old station building before it’s restoration in the last image. FM Brown’s Sons (image…
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Linette Candies
Read more: Linette CandiesLinette Candies is a local chocolate candy company especially known for their “Betcha Life” candy bars. They used to be located at the building shown below at 105 Washington Street in Reading. At some point they moved to a larger location in Womelsdorf. According to yellowpages.com; Linette Quality Chocolates was founded in 1927 as a…
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West Wyomissing Foot Bridge
Read more: West Wyomissing Foot BridgeIn West Wyomissing, there used to be a pedestrian foot bridge that connected Morwood Avenue to Penn Avenue. It was built by the Reading Railroad in the early 1920s to help commuters who lived in West Wyo to get to the trolly lines on Penn Ave easily. A nearby establishment was Queen of the Valley Diner…
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On This Day…May 3rd 1991
Read more: On This Day…May 3rd 1991Above the fold in the May 3rd, 1991 Reading Eagle In entertainment…
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On This Day April 25th
Read more: On This Day April 25thAbove the fold in the April 25th 1980 Reading Eagle Mohrsville Train Stop eliminated Front page news in the April 25th 1985 Reading Eagle:
