It took 20 people a few hours to set up one of the world's largest mobile model train displays inside the Railroad Museum of ...

PHILADELPHIA, May 21.--The suspensions of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, which were officially announced to-day, will be far ...

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company -- a corporation made immortal by its inclusion on the Monopoly board game -- relied heavily on Reading, and in turn, completely changed the ...

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 16. The freights and tolls on anthracite coal by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, are this day advanced 15 cents, per ton, as advertised by the Company.

The Reading Viaduct is the last vestige of the once-behemoth Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, significant player in Philadelphia’s early industrial prominence, and source of a chunk of its wealth ...

A long-abandoned rail line is open for business again in Philadelphia, transformed into an elevated park and the city's answer to New York's High Line.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)--It closed decades ago, but now developers plan to turn the old Reading Railroad line into a park. Now, a rocky patch of land runs through the city of Philadelphia and it needs ...

This is the first step in a larger plan to repurpose some three miles of unused rail lines in the city.

The Little Schuylkill Navigation Railroad shuttled coal from the Tamaqua area to Port Clinton. And by the early 1840s, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ran a line from Reading to Mount Carbon.