Prototype Information

Accurate models depend on good prototype information.

Reading Information on the Web

Center for Railroad Photography & Art: A page of Wonderful images of the Reading taken by Donald W. Furler.

Reading page on George Elwood’s Fallen Flags website.

The Alphabet Route: Equipment diagrams as PDF format. Plus a lot more.

Association of American RailRoads Classification of Cars

I finally found a listing of the AAR Freight Car Classifications online today. So I’ve stopped posting the list from my January 1952 ORER. The link below covers ORER’s from 1/1917 – 4/1999.

AAR Mechanical Designations

Reading Company Documents

  • Standard Instructions: F-50
    Subject – Painting and Marking for Maintenance of Way and Wreck Service Equipment. Marking of cars for ash service. – Reading Company, August 8, 1934

Railroad Documents

Reading Locomotives

Reading Freight Cars

Off-Road Freight Cars