"Pennsylvania Avenue Subway" Tunnel, Former Reading Railroad City Branch, Philadelphia, 2004.#photography

Interior of abandoned railroad tunnel with arched ceilings and grates admitting light at intervals. A stack of railroad ties is in foreground left.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: the Reading was a major northeastern US railroad (made famous internationally by its place on the Monopoly gameboard), which ceded its rail business in 1976 to the newly formed Conrail consortium. But the company kept most of its non-railroad real estate holdings, and today mostly operates cinemas (including NYC's Angelika) in several countries.(The Reading Company was named for the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced with the past tense of what you do with words on a page).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @mattblaze I think when I was a child I said "Reeding"; when I was an adolescent and learned about the geography of England, I said "Redding". Now I discover that the child was right. Good to know.#MonopolyGame

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