The Eastern Shore Rail Road Company (1860) (53k jpg) A very rare certificate. The railroad was chartered in the late 1850's from Wilmington, Delaware to Somer's Cove, Maryland, which was later renamed Chrisfield after the the co-president who signed the certificate. The railroad finally reached Somer's Cove around 1868. It was later owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Vignette shows era steam engine. (32k jpg)
Price: Low-Moderate+

Oregon and Transcontinental Company (1883) (46k jpg). An early northwest railroad. The Vignette (51k jpg) shows indians watching wagon train, railroad train, and river shipping.
Price: Very Inexpensive

Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Company (39k). 1909. One of several New Jersey stock certificates with attractive vignettes of beach scenes.
Price: Low.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (19k). 1839. A very early railroad stock certificate for the B&O Railroad that was one of the first railroads in the United States. The B&O entered operation on August 28, 1830 on a track form Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills, a distance of 13 miles, pulled by the Tom Thumb. Note diamond signature cancellations used in many older companies to void certificates.
Price: Low to Moderate, depending on year, signature, and condition.

Canada Southern Railway Company (37.7k). Issued to, but not signed by FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT as part of a trust arrangement.
Price: Low to Moderate, depending on year, signature, and condition.

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company (32.3k). 1904. Vignette features detailed locomotive engraving.
Price: Very Inexpensive.

Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company (29.8k). 1906.
Price: Very Inexpensive.

Hereford Railway Company (37.1k). 1913.
Price: Very Inexpensive.

Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (34.6k). 1932. Vignette features the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad tunnel.
Price: Very Inexpensive.

Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company (24.8k). 1857. Iowa. Mississippi Missouri Railroad stock certificate. Printed entirely in black. Fine multi-vignetted certificate depicting Indians overlooking a passing steam locomotive at top center, steamboat and Indian scenes at left. Signed as president by JOHN A. DIX (1798 1879). Union general during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Railroad executive. Dix was a trusted public servant and financier in the period leading up to the Civil War. He served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the last three months of the Buchanan administration (Jan. - March 1861), at the insistence of the eastern money interests who knew that Dix's presence would lend stability to that faltering administration. In May 1861, Lincoln appointed Dix major general of volunteers and, as such, Dix outranked all other volunteer officers until the end of the War. After the War, Dix had a distinguished career in both diplomacy and politics serving as Minister to France, 1866-1869, and as governor of New York, 1872-1874. Fort Dix, New Jersey was named after General Dix.
Price: Low. [Winslow and Associates]

Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company (37.3k). 1956.
Price: Very Inexpensive.

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