New York Central and Hudson River Railroad ,000 ca. 1912 - Big and Bold Debent

Description

Very beautiful ,000 debenture with a grat illustration of trackworkers laying ties.  Issued ca. 1913, this was a 30 year 4% Gold Debenture.  This item has the beautiful yellow State of New York transfer stamp along the border.  It's WONDERFUL.  Though the photo may show this to be blue-green, it is steel blue.  It is crispty crisp!
Cornelius Vanderbilt
obtained control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864, soon after he bought the parallel
New York and Harlem Railroad
.
In 1867 Vanderbilt acquired control of the New York Central, with the help of maneuverings related to the
Hudson River Bridge
in
Albany
.
On
November 1
,
1869
he merged the NYC with his Hudson River Railroad into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Along the line of the Hudson River Railroad, the
High Line
was built in the 1930s in
New York City
as an elevated bypass to the existing
street running
trackage on
Eleventh Avenue
, at the time called "Death Avenue" due to the large number of accidents involving trains. The elevated section has since been abandoned, and the tunnel to the north, built at the same time, is used only by
Amtrak
trains to
New York Penn Station
(all other trains use the
Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad
to access the
New York and Harlem Railroad
). A surviving section of the
High Line
, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, is currently under development as a linear park.
Additional Information:
This is a cancelled debenture.
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