THE READING RAILROAD: WHAT HAPPENED?

This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Reading, D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads.
The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic".
The corporate history of these five roads is woven into a wealth of wonderful, all-color, railroading scenes. Our animated maps, made especially for our videos, are used to keep the viewer more informed.

[@ttocselbag5054]

Miles of smiles! Thank you.

[@georgetompkins5438]

Excellent. Thanks

[@nonewherelistens1906]

Thanks. Brought back memories. Commuted on the Reading lines on the West Trenton line from 1965 - 1970.

[@anthonyhunt701]

I so loved the Reading❤

[@jacktaggart2489]

Wonderful glimpses of the Reading. Even with a crowded car it was difficult to make earnings with an engineer, a fireman, a conductor and a trainman required for a single RDC, but the Reading had a classy Passenger service, non the less.

[@intercityrailpal]

Loss of mail and packages in volume bankrupted the whole system coast to coast Oct 1967.

[@mjrodriguez8670]

I enjoyed watching the ALCo Centuries of the Reading!

[@poodlesgalore2327]

I’ve got the entire Dvd. It is excellent.

[@user-ue8qg4fk2c]

Reading & Northern still rides the Reading's home rails,🤔 so the Reading never left

[@intercityrailpal]

Every train ticket taxed to help build highways and airports until 1962.

[@debra6438]

The ICC destroyed all these railroads.

[@stephenheath8465]

and the EPA,Appalachian Coal was dirty compare to the Powder River Coal out west