North 3rd Street Collapse | Keystone Wagon Works | Reading PA 

On the evening of Thursday August 22nd, 2024 it was reported by Berks Weekly that a building had collapsed on North 3rd street and that children may have been inside. Firefighters used thermal drone imaging to confirm that no one was buried in the rubble and that the children that had been seen playing inside before the collapse had made it out. It was immediately apparent that this was a turn of the 20th century industrial building of some sort, so I took my own drone down to get some shots and did the research to find the building's history and how exactly it got to the point of collapsing within feet of a traveled railroad line.
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