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This weeks Saturday Night Special is a pair of Reading Geeps. GP35 3628 and GP39-2 3420 are at Bethlehem, PA on March 27, 1976. Photograph by Charles Houser. In 4 more days the 3628 would become a Conrail locomotive and the 3420 would become the D&H 7420.
Gerrit van Blaaderen, De Court Onderwater op zijn ziekbed, ca 1904, Singer Museum Laren. Gezien bij de tentoonstelling 'Uitgelezen: over boekdrukkunst, boeken en lezen', 17 februari-17 mei 2015, Museum Gouda.
One thing I've got down to a science is panning heritage units in bad weather leading their way past Harris Tower in downtown Harrisburg. This shot is no different as NS 1067, the Reading heritage unit, leads train 66Z east through the first feet of the Harrisburg Line.
WWRFP 5/25/16 - RLP 6/22/16
This is Bates Hall of the Boston Publi Library, it's so majestic and beautiful, it makes you feel smarter just by being there!
This is by way of introduction to an upcoming series of photos I will be posting from a recent visit to the market.
Reading Terminal Market - America's oldest farmers' market
The Reading Terminal Market, established in 1892 at 12th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, is the nation’s oldest continuously operating farmers’ market. Through its long and interesting history, it has seen times both good and bad, but has emerged in the 21st century as one of the greatest public markets in the country.
When you visit the market, you can enjoy eating virtually every type of cuisine, from sublime soul food and exquisite Asian and Middle Eastern dishes to authentic Philly Cheesesteaks and traditional Pennsylvania Dutch fare — all available from largely family-run stands.
Why a Reading market in Philadelphia you ask - - -
In 1889, the Reading Railroad decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and Chestnut Streets.
The chosen location was occupied by an open-air market that had been in continuous operation since 1653. After loud complaints and much negotiation, the Railroad agreed to purchase the markets for $1 million and move them to a new structure: the Reading Terminal Market, located to the rear of the headhouse at 12th and Filbert Streets. This required the trainshed and all of its tracks to be constructed one story above street level, with the Reading Viaduct to bring trains in and out.
Reading Terminal served the railroad's inter-city and regional rail trains, many of which are still running as part of the SEPTA Regional Rail system that connects Center City with outlying neighborhoods and suburbs, especially to the north. Daily traffic peaked during World War II with up to 45,000 daily passengers, then declined in the 1950s with the advance of road and air travel. The terminal buildings declined with the railroad's fortunes as maintenance budgets were cut. The Reading declared bankruptcy on November 23, 1971.
The shed was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
It now houses some of the Pennsylvania Convention Center facilities.
Reading & Northern Ramble #2 rolls across the field at Miller's Crossing nearing its next stop at Port Clinton, PA
Reading the obits.....a lot of people read the obits to see if an old friend or acquaintance has died....
Sitting on the edge of the dock reading the waves as they go by, relaxing and a way to escape the world for a moment.
This photo is made similar to the last one: The background is aluminium foil, which I crumpled. The light comes from a torch.
Dieses Foto ist ähnlich entstanden, wie das davor. Im Hintergrund befindet sich zerknitterte Aluminiumfolie und das Licht kommt von einer Taschenlampe, welche diese und das Buch beleuchtet.
Someone said I haven't done buildings lately ;) Here's two more from 'round the corner :)
I haven't researched the history of this building and am not sure about its cultural value, but I like the concept of libraries and reading,and certainly the look of it :)
I've been wanting to do this with my books for a while now, but decided to start with just a small section in the toyroom instead. My boys thought it was cool. Wanna bet how long it stays like this?
Possibly the last passenger train to visit Quakertown, Pennsylvania, the Souderton Railroad Days special pauses before returning to Souderton. Most onlookers are at the other end of the train, examining Blue Mountain and reading 4-6-2 425.
50026 Indomitable and 50023 Howe have just arrived at Reading's platform 9 with the 14.15 Paddington to Oxford. Apart from 50026, possibly some of the coaches and the base of platform 9, which has been subsumed into the new platforms 10 and 11, nothing else in this view exists today; including the Thames Water building peeping over the platform canopy.
Note the black relief around the front windows of both locos. This non-standard livery modification was only applied to these two locomotives and at one end of 50024, the latter in the revised version of the NSE livery.
Double heading in the Thames Valley was usually to reposition a locomotive or, as in this case, to provide insurance against the failure of a locomotive on test following repairs at Old Oak Common depot.