Reading Transit & Light #182

6-18003 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:31 am **Posts:** 728

Listing this as a reference more than anything. Reading #182, a Brill product, and another trolley bungalow. The car is missing the bulk of one platform and has multiple penetrations in both sides. There are some in-service photos of the car in Arcadia’s Reading Trains and Trolleys. Currently used as part of a cabin along the Maiden Creek.

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o anderson · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:50 pm

Just found an interesting rather long color video of trolleys of various kinds running in Reading, PA.
Seems quite a few bodies have survived over the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQh5Tz0olI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQh5Tz0olI

6-18003 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:31 am **Posts:** 728

For reference, these are all of the Reading cars I know of that are still extant and not in preservation. Most of these are obviously on private property. So please use your heads and be respectful.

Reading Transit & Light #500(b?), believed to be a Wason built Birney. 1011 Trolley Rd., Mohrsville, PA.

Reading Transit & Light #511, part of Hotel Fiesol, Skippack, PA.

Oley Valley Railway #302 (left) and Reading Transit & Light #95. Mill Road at Fieldstone Lane, Oley Township, PA.

Reading Transit & Light #182 is mentioned above. Unconfirmed is Oley Valley #307, last reported near French Creek State Park.

Reading (United Traction?) #72 is in private hands near Glenmoore, PA. There was also supposedly at least one more Reading car with #511 before it was relocated, first to the Trolley Stop in Skippack, and later the Hotel Fiesol. Location is unknown.

Larry Lovejoy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2026 6:33 pm

Back around Christmas 1971, my college professors had me driving back roads in northern Berks County, making a thumbnail assessment of rural road conditions for an engineering study. Along one road I encountered what was evidently a fishing camp, alongside of some stream, that included both a Birney car and what appeared to be the body of a single truck snow sweeper. The sweeper looked somewhat like one of these:

https://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/pa/htm/rsr27.htm

Somewhere, I have an old-fashioned chemical photograph of those cars. Alas, what I definitely don't have is any recollection of exactly where these cars were, other than the fact that it was somewhere near Lenhartsville. Given their location alongside a creek, I'd not be surprised if neither car survived Hurricane Agnes, which inundated that region about six months later.

/s/ Larry
Lawrence G. Lovejoy, P.E.
Director of Engineering
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Inc.