A Reading Company switcher leads two SEPTA EMUs through Royersford, Pa. on the RDG main line. The cars, normally found in service on the Reading's Philadelphia-area commuter lines, were on their way to the Reading, Pa. shop complex for maintenance.

RDG often sent EMUs to the Reading shops for work that could not be done at the Wayne Junction shops in Philadelphia. In addition to the occasional "hospital train", cars were also transferred behind the railroad's Philadelphia-Reading RDC runs.

Amtrak also took advantage of the Reading Shops expertise when it acquired RDCs for service around its network. Many of its RDCs were rehabbed there before taking off for places such as Rockford, Ill. and Springfield, Mass.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, 1976.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, June 15, 2010.
Railroad: Reading.

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