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 1976.
Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, c. 1893
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company $50 bill from 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
Conrail, formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its operations during its acquisition by CSX Corporation and the Norfolk Southern Railway.
CR 6256 and 6469 at former Erie Yard in Gang Mills, New York on October 4, 1987.
The 1975 Final System Plan left major parts of the Erie Lackawanna Railway and Reading Company out of Conrail
Conrail transfer caboose 18065 brings up the rear of a local freight passing Porter, Indiana, in the early 1990s
Conrail Shared Assets is jointly owned by CSX and NS, and uses locomotives from both companies
