Rails Around Reading in Color

by Benjamin L. Bernhart

Rails Around Reading in Color is a full-color hardcover railroad photography book chronicling the railroads operating in and around Reading, Pennsylvania, primarily during the mid-20th century. Written and compiled by noted railroad historian Benjamin L. Bernhart, the 96-page volume features hundreds of vibrant color photographs of the Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, and Reading Street Railway, capturing trains, infrastructure, and scenes from roughly the late 1930s through the 1970s.