. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . w to reach them. 214 POPULAR itKSOKTS, AND UOW TO REACH THEM. ILLUSTRATED PLEASURE ROUTE No. 17. Philadelphia to Reading, Pottsville, Williamsport, and the. Coal Regions of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD. How little the above heading serves to iulorm the reader of the extentof track controlled by this road, its branches and connections! FromPhiladelphia to Reading, the original terminus, is only fifty-eight m
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . w to reach them. 214 POPULAR itKSOKTS, AND UOW TO REACH THEM. ILLUSTRATED PLEASURE ROUTE No. 17. Philadelphia to Reading, Pottsville, Williamsport, and the. Coal Regions of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD. How little the above heading serves to iulorm the reader of the extentof track controlled by this road, its branches and connections! FromPhiladelphia to Reading, the original terminus, is only fifty-eight miles:the present line owned, leased, and ojjerated by this company aggregatesfifteen hundred miles. From Philadelphia to Reading is still the mainline, which has been extended to Pottsville, Tamaqua, and this, branches, large and small, lead in every direction; some tobeautify cities and villages, others into the fastnesses of the mountains,developing a diversity of enterprise and a wealth of scenery of unri-valled interest and beauty. Philadelphia is the starting-point, Readingand Pottsville the centres from which the principal branches COLUMBIA BRIDGE. Leaving Philadelphia from the commodious depot at Broad and Cal-lowhill Streets, we run through the built-up portions of the city fora half-mile to Falrmount Pork. Skirting this, our course is takenalong the Schuylkill Rirer, which we cross at Columbia Bridge, and passBelmont Station, near the entrance of Belmont Glen, which is justlyknown as one of the finest features of Philadelphias great park ; hence OPULAR KESOIMS, AND HOW TO UEAC the popularity of this entrance. To accommodatethe thousands who annually visit Fairmount. theReading Railroad Company has organized w hat isknown as the park accommodation train, whichaffords superior facilities to visitors. Just beyond the (Jlen lie the grounds on v\hicliare being erected the buildings for the ivxposi-tion, incident to the centennialanniversary of ou
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