Talk:Reading Company

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Article name?

I'm not sure that the article should be here. The company only had the Railroad name until 1871, when it became Railway. Then in 1923 it seems to have become the Reading Company - should it be there? Or should we go by the last railroad/railway name? This also affects the category. --SPUI (talk) 28 June 2005 03:31 (UTC)

I'm sorry, this story is just too weird. Not that a US railroad company ended up operating cinemas, but that it ended up operating them in Australia. Is it verified? Gazpacho 07:26, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Guess it's true. Not any weirder than Berkshire Hathaway, I suppose. I'll fill in some details. Gazpacho 21:36, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

The lede paragraph in this article is really bad. It should be retitled or moved to the Philadelphia and Reading railroad since the Reading company came in after the USRA returned management control to the P&R in the early 1920s. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 14:14, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Richmond coal terminal

Rather than say that Richmond became a "very large coal terminal," may I suggest something like, "By the midnineteenth century, Richmond was one of the largest, if not the largest coal terminals in the country."

My source is James Holten, The Reading: History of a Coal Age Empire, Vol. I the Nineteenth century, Laury's Station, Pennsylvania: Garrigues House, 1989, p. 131. TrumpetBugleHorn 06:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Reading equipment

I think it would be a good idea to include a section on the equipment of the reading, because i know the Pennsylvania Railroad's page has a good section on their equipment and the reading deserves on as well

Included would be: Steam Locomotives(G1-G3, T1, M1, K1, I8-I10) Diesel: (FT, F7, FP7, Rs-3, Geeps) a section on passenger equipment would have RDCs, EMUs, and their wall street and crusader equiment —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mannybrown1 (talk • contribs) 21:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Reading Company: 1924–1976 and electrification

I think that I'm going to add more to the 1924-1976 history section, but I am unsure if I sould include thew electrification in that section or creat its own section latter on? mannybrown1

Great idea, add a more detailed article reference under the section heading ... such as laid out in the style manual ... Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Section_organization Risk Engineer (talk) 11:46, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

World Wide View

When the article Reading Entertainment is finally merged here, more infomation should be added so that it has a world wide view of the subject. Right now it just focusses on the US operations and completly ignore Australia or New Zealand. Also, it needs reliable refrences. --Klltr (talk) 07:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

• I noticed that the merge has not yet taken place, despite the decision being made in 2010. I don't how to merger articles yet, so someone will need to do this very soon. --Klltr (talk) 03:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Is it Rail Road, Railroad, or Railway?

Roger SPUI. Within inches of each other under heading 'History' you see 'Rail Road', 'Railroad', and 'Railway' (in the illustration), with no explanation.

Identify, explain, and provide a table listing the names by which this road was known, and when.

Now, the listing of the presidents and their dates is more like it. Do you know how few of the other RR articles have that?

Cordially, Jim Luedke — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimlue (talk • contribs) 22:57, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Autolinks

And for Pete's sake remove the hyperlinks that point to the very article we are reading. (Oops--sorry for the pun.)

Actually, this is not the writers' fault. Wikipedia could easily catch and prevent it. Since they didn't, is is an un-feature of their editing interface and they are to blame.--J.L. Jimlue (talk) 23:12, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree ..This article seems to be structured differently than other railroad articles with a number of self referencing or circular links... Risk Engineer (talk) 11:29, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Philadelphia Germantown and Norristown Railroad

This should really be a separate article ... the link is a circular reference ... I plan to develop a new article on this pioneer railroad ... Risk Engineer (talk) 11:26, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Here is a good reference article on the PG&N RR, http://germantownnewspapers.com/The_Great_Train_Race_to_Chestnut_Hill__The_Reading_Co..html ... E709177 (talk) 17:59, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the info ... Risk Engineer (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Most important year withheld

We aren't told when the P&R opened. All you say is, "The portion from Reading to Norristown opened on" etc., and the "full line opened" etc. It begs the question: So what portion if any opened before Reading–Norristown, and when?

Or, do you mean Reading–Norristown was the first? If so, say it, and more importantly make it a statement about the RR itself: "The Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road opened July 16, 1838, running from Reading to Norristown."

Point of order, Mr. Chairman

1.  Don't cover a company's later period—double-tracking, vertical expansion, good old Archie McLeod, J. P. Morgan, etc.—and then start in on its history, rewinding to 1833. I came to this article expressly to find the year the P&R opened and found myself scrolling, scouring, and scowling, up & down before I found it. Sorry; make that: I didn't find it, since you don't state it.

At the risk of being obvious, state everything in chronological order. Except for, that is, if you want to start the History section with a quick overview (one which starts in 1833).

2. Caption "1833–73: Expansion" is duly Greta Garbled. If 1833–1873 was the P&R's "expansion" period, how long and how far had it been running before it started "expanding" in "1833"? Boy, I sure hope our troops guarded that road heavily to keep it out of British hands in the War of 1812.

Yours for a more un-garbled America,

Jimlue (talk) 21:51, 30 January 2023 (UTC)