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Trackside Reading
Anthracite Country
with
Arch & Bruce Kantner

By: Jeremy F. Plant

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2005
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color

List Price: $59.95                                       Our Price: $47.96

The source of Reading Company prosperity, its central Pennsylvania
anthracite territory, was recorded by the Kantner Brothers in color
chiefly during the 1950’s. The last of steam and the earliest of Reading
diesels are shown at work gathering and hauling coal as well as
providing first class passenger conveyance.

Contents Include:

Reading Anthracite Country with Arch & Bruce Kantner
Introduction
Conversations with Bruce Kantner

Coverage Includes:

Main Line - Hamburg - Port Clinton - Auburn
Alongside the Schuylkill - Schuylkill Haven
Budd Cars - West of the Station - Mine Hill Crossing
Connor - The Lehigh Valley Bridge - The G-3
Pottsville - Mill Creek Junction - St. Clair
Frackville Branch - Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Branch
Cressona - The Mallets - Consolidations
Steam in Winter - The 2-10-2s - Baldwin Diesels
Alco Diesels - EMD Power - The Footbridge
Hagner's - Beckville - Powder Mill Bridge
Glenworth - Westwood - Tremont Extension
Lebanon & Tremont Branch - Crossline
Newmanstown - Yellow and Green - Lebanon Valley
Rutherford - Harrisburg - Gettysburg Branch
Up the Little Schuylkill - Tamaqua
East Mahanoy Junction - Mahanoy & Shamokin Branch
Gordon - Lavelle - Paxinos - Sunbury
Catawissa Branch - Quakake - Lofty - Shumans
Mainville - Catawissa - Farewell