By Holly Herman, Reading Eagle; August 3, 2020
John P. Weidenhammer has fond memories as a young boy of boarding the train in downtown Reading to spend a fun day in Philadelphia.
“When I was a kid, my dad took us on the train to Philly,” recalled Weidenhammer, who decades later is spearheading a project to restore passenger train service. “We would go to Horn and Hardart automat and the Franklin Institute. The ride was about an hour and 20 minutes.”