Philip K. Smith
Autor de Reading Trains and Trolleys
Obras de Philip K. Smith
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Berne, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Organizaciones
- National Railway Historical Society
Train Collectors Association
Historical Society of Berks County
Miembros
Reseñas
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Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 12
- Popularidad
- #813,248
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 2
This book gives a sense of what it was like to ride the Reading and currently to ride the tourist Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern Railroad (the Hawk Mountain line) and the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway with its fall leaf rambles from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe. It brought back memories of riding the Reading to Philadelphia during the Christmas holiday season when I was a child, leaving from the elegant Franklin Street Station. I was also fortunate in the fifties to be able to ride one of the last surviving trolleys on Penn Street.
There is no bibliography and this book does not replace the definitive 2 volume set by Jim Holton, The Reading Railroad or the many books on the history of railroads by Benjamin Bernhart but it is a good place to start and is an enjoyable way to pass an afternoon.… (más)