Hi, i live in Lititz, and there are a few of these little wooden sheds painted in the faiding reading railroad colors, and always wondered what they were. There's even one at Root's Country Market. They look historic and deteriorating. Are there any preserved i could visit?
Thanks for the Help.

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> Hi, i live in Lititz, and there are a few of
> these little wooden sheds painted in the
> faiding reading railroad colors, and always
> wondered what they were. There's even one at
> Root's Country Market. They look historic
> and deteriorating. Are there any preserved i
> could visit?

If you mean the basic wooden tool sheds, which housed basic tools like track spikes, fishplates, etc. and maybe a handcar or track speeder, at least one has been formally preserved, in nice condition at the Central Pa. Chapter NRHS museum at the Reading depot at White Deer, Pa. If memory serves correctly, the shed was acquired from Shamokin, Pa.


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Correcting my earlier information, a co-member writes to me:

"Just to set the record straight, the tool house at White Deer was originlly at New Columbia. It was moved to a farm west of Route 15 sometime in the indeterminate past (I would guess mid-to-late 1960's) and then to White Deer around 1991 or 1992. I recall when every Reading station had its own collection of outbuildings: tool houses, coal sheds, outhouses, railcar and truck scales, etc. They varied in size from 4 by 4 one-holers to double-width motorcar houses. The RDG had standard plans for all of them, but they all ended up with various little quirks added by the locals."

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