The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-10-22

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lille, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Colum-
bia, Carlisle, Shippersburg, Gettys-
burg, Pine Grove. Brookside, Allen
| town, EastOn aud Phillipsburg
They traverse the beautiful and fertile
valleys of the Schuylkill, the Maha'
noy, the Catawissa and Lehigh.
| AT Allentown the East Pennsyl.
vania branch connects with the Cen
| ,ral Railroad of New Jersey and with
the Lebigh Valley road for Mauch
! Chunk, Wilkes-Barre and Towanda
and the important New York towns of
Oweqo, Elmira, Geneva, Rochester
and Buffalo.
At SlatingtOn, Pa, the Reading
connects with the Lehigh Valley and
the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and
| Boston Railroad by way of the can
| tieVer bridge over the hudson at
Poughkeepsie, making the run, with
out changing cars, from Philadelphia
| 10 Boston in the quick time of thir-
| teen hours. This line traverses the
most attractive sections of Connect
cut and is the only route between the
! two termini without q change of cars.
Two important links of the Read
ing system are the lines running from
Philadelphia to Bethlehem and from
Philadelphia to MorristOwn. Each
passes through many similar towns,
whose passenger traffic makes large
additions to the business Of the sys-
tenn.
BY the acquisition of the Philadel.
phla, Harrisburg and Pittsburg line,
the Reading has secured another con-
neciion with the Baltimore and Ohio
road which will add greatly to its
Western traffic both in passengers and
freight.
The recent extension from Bound
Brook to the sea, near Perth Amboy,
gives the Reading shipping port in
New York harbor, with abundant
facilities for the economical handling
of any amount of coal and other
heavy and bulky freight.
BY the East Pennsylvania line, in
conjunction with the Lebanon Valley
branch, Reading has nearly an air
line route from Allentown to Harris
burg, which will probably soon be
used as a short line between New
York and the West Over this line
the Pennsylvania Company shipped
its heavy freight before it gained con-
troll of the United Railroads of New
jersey.
A most notable achievement IS the
erection of the palace station in the
heart Of Philadelphia. After a long
and aTduOus struggle the Reading
secured terminal facilities at Twelfth
and Market streets, in the best busi-
ness quarter of that city. Here its
splendid depot scars above all the
neighboring buildings, and it will he
completed during the present year.
1t is said to he the largest passenger
station in the world The span of
the arched roof is 266 feet, and above
the street 100 feet, while the train
house is 662 feet long, with thirteen
tracks under the crystal roof.
Among the many claims of the
Reading system for public apprecia-
ton is that it runs regularly one of
the fastest trains in the world. The
Blue Line express makes the distance
between New York and Philadelphia
over the Bound Brook route in two
| hours, fact which is fully appreci,
ated by the business communities of
! the two cities, aud which continues
on through Baltimore, reaching
Washington in five hours.
This high rate of speed is attained
without danger or unusual wear of
track or rolling stock, by reason of the
exceptional solidity of the roadbed,
which is firmly ballasted with stone
and the perfectness of its heavy steel
rails. Similar fast "runsn are made
by the Readings Atlantic City line.
The fify-six miles from Philadelphia
tn the sea are covered in a trfle more
than one hours tide. This line is a
double track almost straight, firmly
ballasted with Stag, and practically
! level. An extension reaches the new
resort of Brigantine Beach.
A feature of the Reading is Its ex-
traOrdinary terminal facilities. 1t
owns and occupies miles of the Della
ware river front in Philadelphia, with
extensive wharves, docks, elevators
, and storage warehouses required to
accommodate its enormous freight
traffic. It's capacity for business oi
that description in the Quaker City
. nearly surpasses that of the Pennsyl-
vauia Railroad, while it has on New
York harbor the new and ample
! frontage af the Port Reading station
near Perth Amboy, as well as the
docks and wharves of the Lehigh
Valley and New Jersey Central Com
pany on the New Jersey shore and in
f New York City.
Some of the leading items of freight
delivered by the Reading in Philadel
phia during 1891 were:
! Bushels
Wheat..'.,..,. lOl, ,92
SO2J,SU
Oalh 2,91
BaIley 435, 46
20 64
In the same year it shipped tota
Of 308 432 bushels of grain. It's Goa
} receipts at Philadelphia were 3, ,442, ,35l
. tons. As a factor in the coal produc
q tion the Reading stands at the heat
2 of the list.
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