Reading Railroad's Main Line

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Another dip into the film vault, this time a look at the Main Line of the Reading Company between Belt Line Jct. in Reading, and Flat Rock Tunnel in Philadelphia. Also covered are the Perkiomen, Stony Creek and Norristown Branches, as well as Bridgeport roundhouse, Abrams Yard and Norris interlocking. A short clip of an MU trip into Reading Terminal concludes the video. Film sources include John Hand, Sam Lenhart, George Gerhart and Walter Schopp. Sounds are from my personal videos.

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19 июл 2018

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@shortliner68 5 лет назад

Neat to see all the older 40' freight cars with Fallen Flag roadnames that I remember seeing back in the 1950s and '60s.

@AndreiTupolev 3 года назад

Some fantastic vintage rolling stock! Those RS3's really stormed along on passenger work m

@StephenCarlBaldwin 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing this enormously valuable historical footage. The Reading was some railroad!

@jayl8034 3 года назад

I'll take an educated guess that the Norristown Interlocking was the track that crossed over Barbadoes Island to the south bank of the Schuylkill river between Bridgeport and Abrams. I used to fish that river and walked by that interlocking tower all the time as a youngster. Great to see the Bridgeport roundhouse! That got torn down by the time I was there. Circa 1970.

@rogerhuber3133 3 года назад

I love the Reading Co. and this video makes one very aware of the large variety of 1st generation diesels they had. Great seeing Train Masters at work.

@artvandelay0073 5 лет назад

Awesome compilation video! Always love to see the old FP's and FT's in action from back in the day. Especially loved the bird's eye view of the Klapperthal curve. I grew up in the outskirts of Reading during the "Bee Line Service" era of the 1960's and eraly 1970's, and can remember being caught many times on one side or the other of the 7th Street cut at Penn St., counting freight cars with my dad as a train passed by. Good memories. Thanks for sharing!

@WideWorldofTrains 5 лет назад

This is a very amazing vintage train video

@dschlegel75 5 лет назад

Loved it, some great shots in there. Incredible to see all my railfan spots back in their heyday.

@johnringoo756 3 года назад

Magnificent footage.. love the fact that we're just going to hear the train sound which is magnificent.. did I mention it was magnificent.. hypnotic.. thanks

@THR33STEP 5 лет назад

That is some amazing stuff!!! Thanks for posting!!!

@mikeggg5671 5 лет назад

This is just amazing. Cab units, A-B sets, even a pair of Alco FA and B! I mean this is just unbelievable. I grew up in Reading in the late 80s and 90s - I know Wernersville, Womesldorf, Birdsboro - so many locations I remember watching Conrail trains as a boy.

@redbarnz 4 года назад

That was terrific! I thoroughly enjoyed that video about the Reading!

@tomok8283 5 лет назад

Thank you for sharing. And showing us a Reading railroad that many of us never knew. Theirs videos on mid 60s and later Reading. Steam era. But this is the first movie compilation I've ever seen with only first generation diesels! And the sound mixing was perfect! Especially the RS3s as they had what looks like a Leslie 4 tone air horn set!

@Celluloidwatcher Год назад

Thank you for yet another trip down memory lane with the Reading RR, when railroading was an American institution, especially the passenger trains. What memories they bring.

@Lawrence-St.Lawrence1701 5 лет назад

If this footage was on DVD or Blu-Ray, I would certainly buy it. This is really good material!

@christophers.o622 5 лет назад

Great video of the Reading railroads mainline. Today the Philadelphia Reading Terminal is the Terminal Farmers Market, the SEPTA trains to & from Norristown used Market Street East, Penn Center & 30Th. Street Terminal. In 1963 the old Pennsylvania & Reading railroads began replacing the MU’s with Silverliner 1 commuter train cars.

@modeltrainsandtracks 2 года назад

An excellent compilation - thank you for giving us this. Amazing to see so many of the Osgood-Bradley 'American Flyer' passenger cars, elsewhere they are like hens teeth to find photos of them, let alone video!

@jonnybeck6723 3 года назад

Boy, that wuzza good one...

@deepsleep7822 Год назад

Enjoyed the ride on the Reading. Thanks for posting.

@Tom-Lahaye 5 лет назад

What a video is this! All early diesel types and not yet a single GE in sight, this must be the 50's, maybe just after the end of steam, as there was even an FT A&B set.