Capitol Limited (B&O train) were particularly noted for their Chesapeake Bay cuisine, served in ornate cars with leaded glass windows, glass chandeliers, and colonial-style furnishings. The "Capitol Limited" derived much of its passenger traffic from businessmen and government officials traveling between Washington and the midwest. On September 1, 1926, the Pennsylvania Railroad terminated its contract with the B&O, which had permitted the latter to use the "Pennsy's" Hudson River tunnels and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Thereafter, the "Capitol Limited", along with all other B&O passenger trains to New York, operated over the Jersey Central's main line from the connection with the Reading in Bound
Reading, Pennsylvania longest in the Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association series, which follows the same route the automaker used to test his cars. Reading played host to a stop on the PGA Tour, the Reading Open, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The city's cultural institutions include the Reading Symphony Orchestra and its education project the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Reading Choral Society, , the GoggleWorks Art Gallery, the Reading Public Museum and the Historical Society of Berks County. Reading is the birthplace of graphic artist Jim Steranko, guitar virtuoso Richie Kotzen, novelist and poet John Updike, poet Wallace Stevens, and singer-songwriter