RDG Marine & Facilities Remastered 

Just amazing how busy Port Richmond was back in the day. Reading handled so much traffic to and from the Port it’s hard to believe it’s all gone.

I was lucky enough to see all these things in action in the early 1960’s. My father was a brakeman on the Reading and we were always down by the river. I can even remember the car floats at Allegheny Avenue. Hard to believe it’s all gone.

Another Excellent Excellent Excellent video by fmnut, I can really appreciate this one as I grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia in the 60’s and after I married moved to Northeast Philadelphia where I would drive down I 95 south in 80’s and 90’s to go to work into the city and see the remains of what was left of the Reading. I just can’t understand that if all of this once helped build this country, why destroy it. Thank you for resurrecting it in a video so at least we have it to look back on to see what some of us are modeling our home railroads after. An A+++++

This is one awesome video! I have always wondered what the overgrown docks and piers looked like in this area. I knew it had to be big but wow! This was one impressive set-up, really amazing. From the grain pier, conveyor and elevator, to the rollercoaster style coal unloader, the ore pier, the bridges into the second stories of the warehouses, the thawing sheds, the car ferry operations and all the things that support an operation like this. And the sips and tugboats, so many kinds of vessels pulling up to the coal pier from huge ocean ships to lo-slung river barges, some even made from wood! At 6:20 it looks like there is even a sailing ship taking on a load and at 6:51 it looks like a gun on the front of the freighter, must be from WWII, merchant marine I'm guessing. But the guy riding the car down the coal pier manually adjusting the brakes from the wheel itself is priceless. A real window into a time gone past, sadly gone past. Thank You FMNUT, I love your videos and have watched many they are all great! Greetings from Rochester NY.

Been a fan of this railroad since Monopoly.

Neat old footage! Thanks for uploading! 👍👍

great video! some of those jobs seemed very dangerous! those guys knew what they were doing.

Thanks for the remaster ,awesome stuff ,hard to believe all that activity is gone

We were something else once upon a time. Sad to see all this and so much more gone for ever.

Great to see the oldstyle coal dumper in operation

Great to finally see these places in operation and not abandoned. Also great to see REAL railroading before all the restrictive cant do anything rules from OSHA , FRA, and H&S!

Truly massive operation. Thank you.

Seems sad to me all of it is now gone. Even though I'm not from the US, - (I live in the UK), even here things change so fast. I just thank GOD there were/are people who pointed cameras at almost anything, at least when it's gone, (which a lot is nowadays), the young can see what it was like - however 'blurred' the film is.

Thanks for the video. What history has been captured here.

When I see this video, I always wonder how big was the Reading Company? Insanity!

Wonderful presentation. Thanks!

Thank you for all your effort to create this fascinating video.

excellent video. you da man, man

great video, thanks much.

Good stuff here!!

Too Bad the Tug Brandywine was scrapped in East Boston last year

How interesting!

Very cool

Whoa Nellie, that wuz a good one... t'inspired me to play some way-cool blues lix in 'G' (thank you very much) Where do you find this amazing stuff ? (rhetorical) Cheers kids

Outstanding! That coal dumper must have been impressive to see in person. Like the music too, what song / soundtrack is that starting around @1:43 ?

Hello from Arizona

You added Halo 3 soundtrack?

Ok, pure sarcasm here but how on earth did anyone survive this era without safety harnesses and reflective vests??? Lol! Love all the videos of the past when people were able, willing and not hampered by OSHA to actually work!

Excellent, it a sad commentary on how America has declined and does not produce many basic goods..

How they recycle copper?