The diamond logo of the Reading Company stands in the center of this large cover located on Cresson Street, a covered, cobbled-stoned corridor in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia; as close to San Francisco’s urban terrain as the city gets. There are four extant RC covers under the rail bridge, all made by Simon Scullin Foundry. That foundry was located in West Kensington at North American and Cambria Streets where you can find a chop shop today. The cover’s standard hatch pattern was laid out by the father of the inventor of the Slinky, Richard T. James. The son eventually joined a cult, so one has to wonder about the parenting there in Germantown, where Scullin, an Irish immigrant had an office. Reading Company was formed in 1833 and was disbanded in 1976. These dates have been added to the rim, but a more important date was 1906 when the Hepburn Act forced RC to disinvest from its mining operation. Even so, Reading Railroad is rightfully on the Monopoly Board. At one point it was the largest conglomerate in the world with a value of over $4 trillion dollars in today’s money. The Apple of its day.