Railyard: (Satellite, about half of the tracks still exist.)
New Roundhouse: (Satellite)
Coaling Tower: (Satellite, On Dec 12, 2023 location changed from Satellite, the new location is the general area because I think it was gone by the oldest aerial photo I could find, 1957.)
about halfway between the bend in Wilder St. and Pottsville St. extended)
Richard Nagle posted three photos with the comment: "Reading roundhouse at Cressona at original location being razed August 1929."
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| Raymond Storey posted |
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| Dennis DeBruler: The remnants of the pits are still visible. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6283525,-76.1927114,124m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
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| 1944 Pottsville Quad @ 24,000 |
The roundhouse is in the lower-right corner and the coaling tower is in the upper-left corner. (Update: the following photo shows that this is the wrong location for the coaling tower.)
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| EarthExplorer: Oct 20, 1959 @ 60,000; ARB593500600509 |
For future reference, so I don't waste time acessing it again, the May 7, 1957 @ 60,000 (ARA550530030001) is blurry.
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| Mark Kutsch posted March 1929 turntable Cressona ,Pa John Smith: The Table is now at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Bobb Losse Sr.: The 3 hopper cars closest to the camera look to be ash cars. Josh Eifert: Does anyone know what the tall structure is in the background? Dennis DeBruler: Josh Eifert That was the coaling tower. You can see the chutes on the side that would be lowered over the locmotive's tender to add coal to the tender. Some of these concrete structures still exist today because they are so expensive to tear down. But you will seldom see any metal parts such as the chutes still attached to them. |
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