Past a broken piece of fence that used to mark the edge of the cemetery, down a steep embankment covered with dead leaves, ...

The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. was organized in order to ensure its parent company, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, a dominant position in the transportation of anthracite coal from ...

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 ...

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.

The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., or P&R, predecessor to the Reading Railroad, authorized the construction of a line between Philadelphia and Reading in December 1833.

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 ...

“It was the site of great fanfare when the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad’s first passenger train arrived in Mahanoy City on June 22, 1863, after the opening of the Mahanoy Tunnel,” the ...

The Reading Railroad viaduct was built in the 1890s to carry passengers and freight to Center City. The last train traveled the rails in 1984 and the viaduct was left to deteriorate. In 2003, a ...