Or rather, a Reading and Columbia Railroad survivor. This freight house was built in 1883 for the R&C, a railroad that was built to connect the City of Reading, PA, to the Chesapeake Bay Region via the Susquehanna Tide Water Canal at Columbia, PA. The Reading & Philadelphia (aka; the Reading Company) assumed control when it leased the R&C in 1870 and later merged the line into its fold in 1945 becoming the Reading’s Reading and Columbia Branch. With Conrail's takeover of the Reading, the line past this freight house became redundant with former PRR lines and was abandoned and later converted to a rails to trail line. The station in disrepair was restored in 2001 and is now part of the Columbia Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Click here to see an aerial photo by Marc Glucksman featuring this building with N&W #611 in a ferry move back to Spencer, NC in October 2019.
