by Joseph H. Butler | Oct 25, 2017 | Reading Viaduct Update
The Viaduct Readership Project is dedicated to the preservation and reparation of public green areas. The goal is to create a unique fleet that will take advantage of the residents and visitors of the Philadelphia area. The Viaduct, which was 100 years ago in the...
by Joseph H. Butler | Oct 14, 2017 | Reading Viaduct Update
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad were built in February 1832. Their basic capital amounts to $ 600,000. The warehouse is located on large land areas between Frankford Road and Front Street. On March 23, 1839, he made a second collective act in the capital. The firm...
by Joseph H. Butler | Sep 14, 2017 | Reading Viaduct Update
The Pennsylvania Community awarded a railroad charter in 1846 to build the first railway line to connect Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Among the selected builders was John Edgar Thomson, a technician from Georgia Railroad, to design the line. He had chosen a route along...
by Joseph H. Butler | Sep 11, 2017 | Reading Viaduct Update
The main line of the Philadelphia and Reading railways (the original Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad) pass through Philadelphia on the southwest side of the Schuylkill River northwest of the city center (this line...
by Joseph H. Butler | Feb 17, 2017 | Reading Viaduct Update
Prompted great success of the Manhattan High Line Park, the central city district of Philadelphia, the purpose is to rebuild the Viadukt Reading Railroad, which wasn’t used since late 1984, in the green, civilian space. The idea of re-engineering has started in 2010,...