Crusader (train)
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The Crusader was a 5 car stainless steel streamlined express train that ran on a 90.3-mile route from Philadelphia's Reading Terminal to Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal, with a ferry connection to L
The 1937-built Crusader trainset
The train's first schedule and the contest to name it.
The Crusader at Reading Terminal in 1968, shortly before the train began operating with Rail Diesel Cars
The Crusader observation car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Reading Company
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The Reading Company was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in
Crusader (train)
…km) route from Philadelphia's Reading Terminal to Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal, with a ferry connection to Lower Manhattan at Liberty Street. The Reading Railroad provided this service in partnership with the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), in which it was the majority owner of capital stock. Trains including…
Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, c. 1893
A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company $50 bill, issued in 1842
A Reading Class M1sa showing the cab behind the wide Wootten firebox in 1914, a first for the Reading Company
Reading Railway 2-10-2 no. 3000, c. 1931