West Shore Railroad Co. - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bonds for Sale

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West Shore Railroad Co. - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bonds For Sale

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West Shore Railroad Co. - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bonds:
$105.00

$1,000 4% Bond printed by American Bank Note Company, N.Y. Very Pretty! Most coupons remain. Some with orange one pound imprinted stamp. The West Shore Railroad was the final name of a railroad that ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, which is across the Hudson River from New York City, north along the west shore of the river to Albany, New York, and then west to Buffalo. It was organized as a competitor to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, but was soon taken over by that company. The first part of the line was built as the Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad, incorporated April 16, 1864, and opened in Spring 1866. After only about a year of independent operation, the line served as a branch of the New York Central Railroad (NYC), splitting at Athens Junction near Schenectady and running southeast and south along the west side of the Hudson River to Athens, New York. Early plans included acquiring the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad as a northern extension. The Saratoga and Hudson River was bought and merged into the New York Central as their Athens Branch on September 9, 1867. The terminal at Athens was destroyed by fire in 1876. The line ran intermittently from then into the 1880s, with its tracks being torn up for good in 1888. It had been called the "White Elephant" Railroad for most of its existence because it quickly outlived whatever usefulness it may have had. Today a row of brick houses known as the Brick Row Historic District which was built in 1850 for the workers of the failed railroad stand in Athens as the only remaining structure related to the "White Elephant" Railroad project. At the south end of the route, the Ridgefield Park Railroad was incorporated April 4, 1867. This was planned a Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.