Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-10
RAILROAD RUMBLES
READING COVERS
BIG FREIGHT AREA
Handles Traffic From Coast to
Coast; Shown by Pres
ent Rush

Importance of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway as a freight dis
Itributor is receiving an emphatic
demonstration with the present rec
ord business. There was time when
the Reading transacted business only
in Pennsylvania and New York and
New Jersey. That was a long time
ago. To-day Readings fast freight
service reaches from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and from the North to the
South.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way Company has joint freight rates
with practically all prominent rail-
roads in the United States and Can
ada, and is thereby enabled to offer
shippers choice of 80 routes to Chicago
and the West; four routes to Pitts
burgh; six routes to Buffalo; three
States; and three routes to Atlanta,
Savannah, Jacksonville and points
South.
The Reading also maintains extern
sive tidewater terminals at Philadel-
phia where there are ample facilities
for handling all kinds of water-borne
freight, including export, import and
coastwise traffic. Freight is forward
ed to and received from stations on
the following lines:
Line Connections
Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore q
Ohio, Bessemer e. Lake Erie, Boston
& Albany, Boston & Maine, Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo &
Susquehanna, Canadian Pacific, Cen
trail Railway of New Jersey, Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania, Chesapeake
& Ohio, Coal & Coke, Delaware &;
Hudson Company, Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western, Erie, Grand Trunk
Ry. System, Lehigh & Hudson River,
Lehigh & New England, Lehigh VAL
ley, Long Island, New York Central,
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
New York, Ontario & Western, Nor
folk & Western, Pennsylvania, Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie, Pittsburgh, Shaw
NUT & Northern, Richmond, Fred
ericksburg & Potomac, Seaboard Air
Line, Southern, Staten Island Rapid
Transit, Susquehanna e. New York,
Western Maryland, West Shore, Will
Transport d North Branch, and in
termediate connecting lines.
The Reading also handles freight to
and from points in the West North
west, Southwest, and Canada over fast
freight lines operating over the Phila-
delphia & Reading Railway and con-
nections, as follows:
Fast Freight Lines
Blue Ridge Despatch, The Central
States Dispatch, Commercial Express
Line, Empire Line, Erie Dispatch,
Grand Trunk Despatch, Hoosac Tun-
mel Line, Interstate Despatch, Lacka-
wanna Line, Lackawanna Grand
Trunk Line, Lake Shore e-Lackawanna
Line, The Lake Shore-Lehigh Valley
Route. Lehigh & Wabash Despatch,
Merchants Despatch (Blue Line)
North Shore Despatch, Pere Mar
quette-New York Central Line, Red
Line, Merchants Despatch (West
Shore Line), White Line, Michigan
Central al-Lackawanna Line, Michigan
Central-Lehigh Valley Route, Mil
waukee & Michigan Line, Nickel Plate
Line, Ontario Central Despatch, Pere
Marquette Erie Line, Pere Marquette
Lackawanna Line, Pere Marquette
Lehigh Valley Line, Pere Marquette
Ontario Line, Pere Marquette West
Shore Line, Pittsburgh Despatch
Pittsburgh Erie Despatch, Reading
Despatch, Southern States Despatch,
Star Union Line, Traders Despatch,
Wabash & Lackawanna Despatch.
Lake Routes
The Lake and Rail Routes with
which the Reading does business in
clude the following:
Anchor Line (E. & w. T. Coz, Can
adian Pacific Steamship Lines, Cleve-
land & Buffalo Transit Co., Detroit &,
Cleveland Navigation Co., Erie &
Western Transportation Co. (Anchor
Line), Erie r. r. Lake Line, Inland
Lines Limited, Lehigh Valley Trans
portation Co., Mutual Transit Co,
Northern Navigation Co., Port Huron
e Duluth Steamship Co, Western
Transit Co. (Western EXpress).