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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Reading Transit & Light #182 |
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. Attachment: 98D2A645-BB21-4831-9EB0-E97FB872F7FD.jpeg [ 51.35 KiB | Viewed 7627 times ] https://www.redfin.com/PA/Reading/2-C-C ... /146439616 |
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| Author: | o anderson [ Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading Transit & Light #182 |
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 |
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| Author: | 6-18003 [ Sun Feb 01, 2026 3:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading Transit & Light #182 |
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. |
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| Author: | Larry Lovejoy [ Sun Feb 01, 2026 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reading Transit & Light #182 |
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. |
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