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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. By the 1930s, the Reading Company offered hourly expresses from Reading Terminal to the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Jersey City Communipaw Terminal via the Reading's New York Branch to Bound Brook where it connected with the CNJ.
A Reading train departs Reading Terminal in Philadelphia in September 1964. The Reading Company did not operate extensive long-distance passenger train service, but it did field several named trains, most famous of which was the streamlined Crusader, which connected Philadelphia and Jersey City, New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was a railroad that operated in South Jersey in the 20th century. It was created in 1933 as a joint consolidation venture between two competing railroads in the region: the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company .
The former railroad network Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines operated in New Jersey from 1933, serving Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Camden and Cape May. Timetables were introduced in June 1934 and June 1941.
The Reading Company used the terminal for its Crusader and Wall Street trains. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), whose Royal Blue was a premier passenger train to Washington, D.C., and offered train service to Chicago and St. Louis. [15] In April 1967, the opening of the Aldene Connection led to the end of passenger service to the station ...
The train will depart Reading Outer Station at 9 a.m. sharp, make a station stop at Port Clinton, and continue to Jim Thorpe, where passengers will have over four hours to explore the town, take ...
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, involved in perennial disputes with the PRR, re-routed its passenger trains over the branch on October 1, 1880. [5] The Reading electrified the New York Branch between Jenkintown and West Trenton in 1931; electric trains began operating from the Reading Terminal on July 26, 1931.
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has a number of Budd-built cars in its collection in Strasburg: the 1937 observation car built for the Reading Company "Crusader", a Lehigh Valley Railroad rail diesel car of 1951, and Pennsylvania Railroad 860, a Metroliner snackbar-coach built in 1968.