Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933.

Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Delaware River Bridge in 1926, the large number of duplicate routes became uneconomical. The Reading, through its subsidiary Atlantic City Railroad, had the most direct route to Cape May, while the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the West Jersey and Seashore, had the best routes to Atlantic City.

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