A CRASH IN PHILADELPHIA; THE READING RAILROAD AND COAL AND IRON COMPANIES FAIL. Share full article. May 22, 1880. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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 ...

READING, Penn., Jan. 4. The following will appear in the Times and Dispatch to-morrow morning: All the shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company in this city, and along the entire ...

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, ...

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. Reading was st… ...

Railroads nationally were being challenged for the first time by a union, and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, predecessor of the Reading Co., was no exception.In the spring, ...

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 ...

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 ...