GEC Models the Reading Company Under Wire

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Nice-looking catenary.
I'm guessing that the area of which you're speaking must be somewhere not too far from here:


...and the ballast definitely has a brown tinge to it:

What originally caught my eye, though, was this snappy-looking station: Wayne

Thanks a bunch!


Yes and no. That is still in SEPTA's operational area, but your photos are on the ex PRR Mainline west, about 2/3s of the way from 30th street to Thorndale, the westernmost end of SEPTA (technically, this is all Amtrak trackage). You'll notice in your last photo, the "round" catenary poles, which are the original 1914 catenary poles from when the PRR first electrified.

My Reading tracks are technically on about 2/3s of the way on the easternmost set of tracks, on the SEPTA "West Trenton line" (former RDG New York Branch).

Interestingly, that station used to be in Fairmount park, and was used as a ticket office there for the "Centennial Exposition" in 1876. It was relocated to that location in 1887. Considering the terrain around Philadelphia, and the technology of the time, it must have been quite a move.