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Grand Junction Rail Road and Depot Co Bond

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Transportation Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Grand Junction Rail Road and Depot Co Bond
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#8 $1000 6% bond. Signed by Thomas Hopkinson, William Whiting, Isaac Livermore, treasurer Robinson and President illegible. "The railroad was chartered April 24, 1847, to connect the railroads entering Boston from the north and west with its wharves in East Boston. This was a rechartering of the Chelsea Branch Railroad, incorporated April 10, 1846. The first section to open was from East Boston to the Boston and Maine Railroad in Somerville, opened in 1849. It began at a huge waterfront yard complex on Boston Harbor, occupying the space east of the Eastern Railroad terminal and west of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad terminal. ...The line was reorganized as the East Boston Freight Railroad in 1862, and the Boston and Albany bought the property in 1869. It passed with the B&A into larger companies - the New York Central Railroad, Penn Central and Conrail. On February 28, 1955, the counterweight fell off the Chelsea Creek drawbridge, taking the bridge permanently out of service; subsequently B&A trains reached East Boston from Chelsea using B&M trackage rights via Revere. B&A service to East Boston ended around 1972. A small footnote is the Union Railroad, which was incorporated May 10, 1848, for the same purpose, and was authorized to merge with the Grand Junction February 25, 1854." from wikipedia. Small ship vignette and great large ships and train vignette. Prag Collection. State: City: Date: 1853 HWAC# 83239