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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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between which it passes. Entering Readingover this road one involuntarily recalls Bayard Taylorsbeautiful word picture of this scene in John GodfreysFortunes. On the right is Mount Penn; to the left Never-sink Mountain. The glorious landscape, the stately oldtown stretched at full length on an incline plane, risingfrom the Schuylkill to the base of the mountain; the river,winding in abrupt curves; hills of superb undulations ininterlinking lines, through the middle distance; Sculls Hillboldly detaching itself in front, and far to the north theBlue Ridge lifting its dim wall against the sky are all thereto-day as they were in the 50s, to delight the eye and command the admiration of every lover of nature. It isnot to be wondered, therefore, that this beautiful spot at-tracted thousands of visitors since the opening of the trol-ley line, which has made it readily accessible. As already explained, the cars of this system enter thecity of Reading over the lines of the United Traction Com-
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ROADBED AND OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION pany. The starting point in Reading is at the corner ofFifth Street and Penn Street, which is the center of thebusiness district. The line extends in a generally easterndirection through the city and suburbs to Carsonia Park,which is 3I miles from the starting point. Here the line ofthe ( )ley \ alley Railway Company actually begins, ex-tending J85 miles in a circuitous route through a very hillycountry, encountering a number of sharp curves and heavygrades. ()ne of these curves, which is of especial interest,is illustrated herewith. The cut shows a horseshoe-curvenear Shanesville and a general view of the locality. It willgive some idea of the difficulties which the company en-countered in building this line. There is another curve afew miles from this point, which is almost an exact dupli-cate of the one here illustrated. The nine sidings, each 300ft. long, are also block signal stations, equipped with theRamsey signal system. The cars run on a regu

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