Reading Railroad's Main Line

Neat to see all the older 40' freight cars with Fallen Flag roadnames that I remember seeing back in the 1950s and '60s.

Thanks for sharing this enormously valuable historical footage. The Reading was some railroad!

Some fantastic vintage rolling stock! Those RS3's really stormed along on passenger work m

Awesome compilation video! Always love to see the old FP's and FT's in action from back in the day. Especially loved the bird's eye view of the Klapperthal curve. I grew up in the outskirts of Reading during the "Bee Line Service" era of the 1960's and eraly 1970's, and can remember being caught many times on one side or the other of the 7th Street cut at Penn St., counting freight cars with my dad as a train passed by. Good memories. Thanks for sharing!

I'll take an educated guess that the Norristown Interlocking was the track that crossed over Barbadoes Island to the south bank of the Schuylkill river between Bridgeport and Abrams. I used to fish that river and walked by that interlocking tower all the time as a youngster. Great to see the Bridgeport roundhouse! That got torn down by the time I was there. Circa 1970.

I love the Reading Co. and this video makes one very aware of the large variety of 1st generation diesels they had. Great seeing Train Masters at work.

This is a very amazing vintage train video

This is just amazing. Cab units, A-B sets, even a pair of Alco FA and B! I mean this is just unbelievable. I grew up in Reading in the late 80s and 90s - I know Wernersville, Womesldorf, Birdsboro - so many locations I remember watching Conrail trains as a boy. As an adult, I model Reading. This gives me such perspective - and such a longing for decades gone by. And Klapperthal Curve by air! OMG! Thank you so much - please keep up the good work, if you find anymore!

Magnificent footage.. love the fact that we're just going to hear the train sound which is magnificent.. did I mention it was magnificent.. hypnotic.. thanks

Loved it, some great shots in there. Incredible to see all my railfan spots back in their heyday.

Thank you for yet another trip down memory lane with the Reading RR, when railroading was an American institution, especially the passenger trains. What memories they bring.

That is some amazing stuff!!! Thanks for posting!!!

What a video is this! All early diesel types and not yet a single GE in sight, this must be the 50's, maybe just after the end of steam, as there was even an FT A&B set. And it seems all different models were used on passengers as well, EMD, Alco or Baldwin, it just doesn't matter. And it seems that even the RS3's had steam heat boilers on them, as I saw one passenger with steam escaping from underneath the cars and then I noticed the stack behind the cab on the short hood which must be the boiler exhaust. Great work with the dubbing of the sound as well, it's spot on.

Great video of the Reading railroads mainline. Today the Philadelphia Reading Terminal is the Terminal Farmers Market, the SEPTA trains to & from Norristown used Market Street East, Penn Center & 30Th. Street Terminal. In 1963 the old Pennsylvania & Reading railroads began replacing the MU’s with Silverliner 1 commuter train cars.

I live in Port Reading, NJ. It was the railroad's port "city" back in the day. It's still very busy with rail traffic, mostly for the oil refineries and storage. Pretty neat history can be told by the elders in town in regards to the Reading line.

Boy, that wuzza good one... I used it to jam along and to keep my guitar plunking sharp and fresh... cheers

That was terrific! I thoroughly enjoyed that video about the Reading!

Thank you for sharing. And showing us a Reading railroad that many of us never knew. Theirs videos on mid 60s and later Reading. Steam era. But this is the first movie compilation I've ever seen with only first generation diesels! And the sound mixing was perfect! Especially the RS3s as they had what looks like a Leslie 4 tone air horn set!

If this footage was on DVD or Blu-Ray, I would certainly buy it. This is really good material!

An excellent compilation - thank you for giving us this. Amazing to see so many of the Osgood-Bradley 'American Flyer' passenger cars, elsewhere they are like hens teeth to find photos of them, let alone video!