This view is looking northbound along Front Street, with Court Street intersecting and heading east behind the Stichter Hardware building in the right of the photo. the long building parallel to Court street in the upper right corner of the photo also belonged to Stichter, and the West Reading Branch is the track that curves from the center of the photo off to the right. The branch ran through a cut between the rear Stichter Hardware building and Schindlebeck's coal yard's elevated trestle (there are photos of that area later in this album); a Reading hopper can be seen on the trestle in the upper right of the photo. The tracks curving off to the left are the Reading's original Schuylkill and Lehigh Branch, which followed the river north past Dana, and Carpenter,
eventually heading up through the rural part of the county to its terminus at Slatington.