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Ultra Rare 1945 'Reading Company' $1000 Bond Stock Certificate

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Ultra Rare 1945 'Reading Company' $1000 Bond Stock Certificate
Ultra Rare 1945 'Reading Company' $1000 Bond Stock Certificate. 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.