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ex Reading Venice Branch LAST RUN 7 years 2 weeks ago #5838

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	tomorrow April 4,2017 will be the LAST RUN on the ex Reading Venice branch in Manayunk. the paper mill(where I work) is closing on April 14,2017 and this will be the last freight movement on the branch. ESPN will pull the last three empties and take them to Falls yard. thus ending service since the branch was built in 1889. Butch Curll
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ex Reading Venice Branch LAST RUN 7 years 2 weeks ago #5839

Riggelweg OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 68 Thank you received: 19	Sorry to hear, and thanks for letting us know. It's sad to see what has happened to industry in this country. Riding around Reading is an eye-opener.
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ex Reading Venice Branch LAST RUN 7 years 2 weeks ago #5842

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Sad day. The Paperwork mill at the west end of Flat Rock Road has been around since the mid-1800's in one form or another. I can remember it in the 1960's and '70's as Container Corporation of America (CCA) when my father worked there. A highlight for any visit was if the Reading was switching the plant. Boxcars of scrap paper inbound, various chemicals in tanks and outbound paperboard (not cardboard) in boxcars. Much of the packaging for Americas favourite consumer products was manufactured there - Pepsi, Tide, Pringles are a few of what I remember getting samples for.

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ex Reading Venice Branch LAST RUN 7 years 2 weeks ago #5844

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	Allan; when did your dad retire. I started there in Sept. 1979. Butch Curll
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December, 1947

Construction begins at the Reading Locomotive Shops on ten new G-3 Pacific passenger steam locomotives. These locomotives will be the last Pacific-type engines built in the United States.

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