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June 3rd 1969 Stock Certificate 'Reading Company' Pennsylvania 100 Shares

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June 3rd 1969 Stock Certificate 'Reading Company' Pennsylvania 100 Shares
June 3rd 1969 Stock Certificate 'Reading Company' Pennsylvania 100 Shares. Commonly called the Reading Railroad, and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for the majority of its existence and was a single railroad during its later years. It operated service as Reading Railway System and was a successor to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, founded in 1833. In decline after WWII, competition with the modern trucking industry that used the Interstate Highway System for short-distance transportation of goods, also known as short hauls, compounded the company's problems, forcing it into bankruptcy in 1971.