1891 **OHIO & MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY COMPANY** ,000 BOND RECEIPT+STUB! SCARCE!

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JUNE 25, 1891  ***SCARCE*** LARGE ~OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY COMPANY~ NUMBER 2245  ,000 BOND RECEIPT WITH ATTACHED STUB!
This ""129"" year old receipt would make a great addition to a early Railroadiana collection!
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Ohio and Mississippi Railway
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The former O&M line in
Osgood, Indiana
.
The
Ohio and Mississippi Railway
(earlier the
Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road
), abbreviated
O&M
, was a railroad operating between
Cincinnati, Ohio
, and
East St. Louis, Illinois
, from 1857 to 1893.
General
Ormsby M. Mitchel
was a civil engineer on this project.
[1]
The railroad started in 1854 and paralleled the
Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal
. Its East St. Louis terminal near the
Mississippi River
was completed in 1857. It was a founding rail line of the
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
.
On September 17, 1861, during the
American Civil War
a train carrying union troops fell through a sabotaged bridge at
Huron, Indiana
, injuring or killing 100.
On October 6, 1866, the
Adams Express Company
car was robbed by the
Reno Gang
just east of
Seymour, Indiana
, becoming the first
train robbery
in U.S. history.
It merged in 1893 with the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway
, and is now part of
CSX Transportation
's
Indiana Subdivision
.
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