Trackside Reading Anthracite Country with Arch and Bruce Kantner (Trk #45) Bridge Line Historical Society

Bridge Line Historical Society

The passenger fleet is viewed in all its glory at several locations in the lower Lehigh River Valley and side trips are made to the Hazleton Branches and Binghamton

A colorful look at the waning days of steam on the DM&IR

) work of well known traction photographer Sandy Goodrick

A color history of the Western Maryland in its last three decades through the camera lens of its Vice President of Operations

Trackside Reading Anthracite Country with Arch and Bruce Kantner (Trk #45) Bridge Line Historical SocietyJeremy F. Plant The source of Reading Company prosperity its central Pennsylvania anthracite territory was recorded by the Kantner Brothers in color chiefly during the 1950s. The last of steam and the earliest of Reading diesels are shown at work, gathering and hauling coal as well as providing first class passenger conveyance. Item # 1253