Conrail (now Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation) Reading International (cinemas and real estate)
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length
1,460 miles (2,350 kilometres)[1]
The Reading Company (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/RED-ing) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976.
Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for the majority of its existence, and a single railroad in its later years. It operated service as Reading Railway System and was a successor to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, founded in 1833. Until the decline in anthracite shipments from the Coal Region in Northeastern Pennsylvania following World War II, it was one of the most prosperous corporations in the United States.
Enactment of the federally-funded Interstate Highway System in 1956 led to competition from the modern trucking industry, who used the Interstates for short-distance transportation of goods, which compounded the company's competition for transportation business, forcing it into bankruptcy in 1971.
In 1976, its railroad operations merged into Conrail, and the remainder of the corporation was renamed Reading International.
^Drury, George H. (1994). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 275–277. ISBN 0-89024-072-8.
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-based company. In the late 1980s, through his holding company the Craig Corporation, Los Angeles–based lawyer James Cotter acquired the ReadingCompany, a...
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The Reading Hardware Company, also known as "The Hardware," is an historic, American factory complex and national historic district that is located in...
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opened originally in 1893 under the elevated train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated to move public markets...
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placed into Philadelphia-area commuter rail service on the PRR and ReadingCompany lines. Budd was contracted in 1966 by the PRR and the U.S. Department...
guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. The company claims to promote the reading of the original work and does not view...
The viaduct was built by the ReadingCompany as an approach to the new Reading Terminal. The viaduct heads north from Reading Terminal and at Callowhill...
The ReadingCompany Grain Elevator was built as a grain elevator in 1925 by the Reading Railroad in Center City Philadelphia to replace an elevator that...
while the reading software provides students in elementary to high school levels with articles to boost their reading skills. In 2023, the company was acquired...
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The Reading Fightin Phils (also called the Reading Fightins) are a Minor League Baseball team based in Reading, Pennsylvania, playing in the Northeast...
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