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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.
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.
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.
Tickets for the excursions — which will take place on May 25, June 22, and Aug. 17 — go on sale at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 by phone at 610-562-2102, or online at www.rbmnrr-passenger.com ...
The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN), sometimes shortened to Reading and Northern Railroad, is a regional railroad in eastern Pennsylvania. With a headquarters in Port Clinton , the RBMN provides freight service on over 400 miles (640 km) of track.
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 .
In mid-2018, the borough of Phoenixville began a study to restore SEPTA passenger rail service between Norristown and Phoenixville along Norfolk Southern freight railroad tracks. [16] In 2018, The Berks Alliance commissioned a study on the restoration of Passenger Rail service between Reading and Philadelphia.
Until 1984 Chestnut Hill East trains used the Reading Viaduct to reach Spring Garden Street and the Reading Terminal; this ended with the opening of the Center City Commuter Connection which routed the trains through the city center and on the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad part of the system. [3]