Many modelers and railfans ask about the interchange points, or places where the Reading transferred freight to and from other railroads. The following list from 1976 represents a final tally of railroads and interchange points for the Reading prior to CONRAIL.
Freight Connections (1976) |
Baltimore & Ohio |
• Eastwick, PA
• Eddystone, PA
• Elsmere, DE |
• Philadelphia, PA
• Wilmington, DE |
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Central Railroad of New Jersey |
• Bound Brook Junction, NJ
• Phillipsburg, NJ |
• Port Reading Crossing, NJ |
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Erie Lackawanna |
• Bloomsburg, PA
• Danville, PA |
• Rupert, PA |
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Ironton |
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Penn Central |
• Belmont (Philadelphia), PA
• Birdsboro, PA
• Camp Hill, PA
• Coatesville, PA
• Columbia, PA
• Conshohocken, PA
• Cromby, PA
• Downington, PA
• Fairless, PA
• Gettysburg Junction, PA
• Gray’s Ferry, PA
• Harrisburg, PA
• Lancaster, PA
• Lebanon, PA
• Linfield, PA |
• Milton, PA
• Montgomery, PA
• Morrisville (North Philadelphia), PA
• Norristown, PA
• Oaks, PA
• Phoenixville, PA
• Pottstown, PA
• Reading, PA
• Royersford, PA
• Shippensburg, PA
• Thurlow, PA
• Trenton, NJ
• Williamsport, PA
• Wilmington, DE |
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Seashore Lines |
• Camden (Bulson St.), NJ |
• Camden (Linden St.), NJ |
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Philadelphia Belt |
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Philadelphia, Bethlehem
& New England |
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Steelton & Highspire |
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Trenton-Princeton Traction |
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Upper Merion & Plymouth |
• Conshohocken, PA
• Swedeland, PA |
• West Conshohocken, PA |
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Western Maryland |
• Gettysburg, PA
• Lurgan, PA |
• Shippensburg, PA |
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