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Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Co. Stock Group four-Green (165 stock certificates)

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Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Co. Stock Group four-Green (165 stock certificates)
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This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 20 @ 13:11UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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165 issued and cancelled stocks. 100 shares Common. 12 text lines. Green border with vignette of locomotive leaving roundhouse. Date in the early 1900s. Signed by C.G. Hedge as vice-president. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (MTK) was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north. It was chartered in 1865 in Kansas by the Union Pacific Railway’s southern branch. After the Civil War, a resolution was passed in Congress to make sure the track made it to Texas, whose railroads didn’t connect to other states at that time. The first train arrived in Texas (near Denison) on Christmas Day in 1872. Important 19th-century figures like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were involved with the railroad. The company made history with a stunt that would never be approved of today. On September 15, 1896, the company purposefully collided two locomotives as a promotional event that was attended by 40,000 people. The promoters perhaps failed to anticipate what happened next: after the collision, the locomotive boilers exploded, sending hot shrapnel into the crown and resulting in 3 deaths and many injuries. [Ref: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/llc01]

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State: Texas,
Date: early 1900's

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