The Reading Railroad - Model Railroader Magazine
Daniel Johnston
Updated on April 07, 2026
Yup, it's Redding for sure, unlike the former Reader Railroad, which was pronounced Reeder.
Pronunciation can often be a very local thing, too. I was in English's Model Railroad Supply (home of Bowser) one time, and asked if anyone could tell me how to pronounce Youghiogheny, as in Pittsburgh McKeesport & Youghiogheny.
As I recall, I got a couple of what might have been guesses. My guess would have been Yuh-guyo-haney, but what I got was Yucka-haney.
That was more-or-less confirmed when I went, with a couple of American friends, railfanning alongside the Youghiogheny River, which they called simply the Yuck.
I was in a well-known hobbyshop in the Chicago area, and was surprised when an employee answered the 'phone with "Dezz-Planes-Hobbies", while here in English-speaking Canada, it would more likely have been Duh-Plain-Hobbies, and in Québec, the pronunciation might have been Day-Plen-Obby.
Many tourists to southern Ontario refer to the provincial capital as Tor-on-toe, but most Ontarians, especially in the areas around that city, call it Trawna (I think that 's supposed to more-or-less rhyme with "trauma")
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