Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) running trains of Budd RDC railcars operating from a small terminal at Lindenwold PATCO station and Atlantic City. While the P-RSL did not enter bankruptcy, its owners, the Penn Central, (successor to the Pennsylvania) and the Reading, did. As a result, Conrail took over the P-RSL on April 1, 1976. Effective May 4, 1896, the Pennsylvania Railroad consolidated all of its railroads and several smaller properties in Southern New Jersey into the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. The WJ&S had lines coming from its Federal Street Terminal in Camden. The "Main Line"
Reading Line with Reading. This railroad became part of the Reading Railroad, and carried traffic from the Allentown area to their main line. In 1976, The Reading Railroad was acquired by Conrail, which continued to use the line as a conduit between North Jersey and the rest of the country. When Conrail was split in 1999, Norfolk Southern was assigned the line. On March 14, 2018, Norfolk Southern increased speeds along the Reading Line from to at 33 grade crossings and from to at 3 grade crossings. The speed change was intended to increase the efficiency of rail operations and improve the