Allentown
Allentown & Reading Street Railway.
A suburban car built by Brill (semi-convertible) in 1902 with 27-E trucks for interurban type service.  The young man standing on the steps is my late mother's brother, the late Paul Fox of Reading Pa. The picture was taken in front of the Allentown Reading Traction Car barn located on Willow Street in Kutztown, Pa.
Kutztown is located midway between Allentown and Reading Pa., a total distance of about 36 miles on Route 222 in eastern Pennsylvania. Kutztown was the maintenance headquarters for the ART. The ART was dual gauge. From Allentown To Kutztown the gauge was standard 4'81/2" and from Kutztown to Reading the gauge was wide gauge 5'. Car # 33 was a wide gauge trolley, and only operated from Kutztown to Reading.  The reason the Reading side of the ART was wide gauge is that the city gauge in Reading was wide gauge and this allowed the ART to operate in the City of Reading.
Photo and caption data from Jim Schlegel
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