The King Coal was a passenger train operated by the Reading Railroad between Philadelphia and Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
[1] The train was launched in the late 1930s, as part of Reading's introduction of streamlined trains, with equipment rebuilt by the railroad specifically for the service.
[1] In its latter years it was truncated to Pottsville on weekends.
[2] Due to declining demand for passenger rail travel as automobiles became more prevalent, the King Coal was discontinued on June 28, 1963.
[3] This United States rail–related article is a stub.