Talk:Reading Company

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[edit] Article name?

I'm not sure that the article should be here. The company only had the Railroad name until 1871, when it became Railway. Then in 1923 it seems to have become the Reading Company - should it be there? Or should we go by the last railroad/railway name? This also affects the category. --SPUI (talk) 28 June 2005 03:31 (UTC)

I'm sorry, this story is just too weird. Not that a US railroad company ended up operating cinemas, but that it ended up operating them in Australia. Is it verified? Gazpacho 07:26, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Guess it's true. Not any weirder than Berkshire Hathaway, I suppose. I'll fill in some details. Gazpacho 21:36, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Richmond coal terminal

Rather than say that Richmond became a "very large coal terminal," may I suggest something like, "By the midnineteenth century, Richmond was one of the largest, if not the largest coal terminals in the country."

My source is James Holten, The Reading: History of a Coal Age Empire, Vol. I the Nineteenth century, Laury's Station, Pennsylvania: Garrigues House, 1989, p. 131. TrumpetBugleHorn 06:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)