Description: Railroad Stock. Exceptional train vignette. Superb. Unusual salmon colored seal. Ornate Victorian title & borders. American Bank Note Co. Scarce! The Providence and Worcester Railroad (reporting mark PW) (NASDAQ:PWX) is a Class II railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming. The railroad connects from Gardner in central Massachusetts, south through its namesake cities of Worcester and Providence, Rhode Island, and west from Rhode Island through Connecticut and into New York City. The railroad's connection between New Haven, Connecticut through New York City to Long Island is via trackage rights over the Hell Gate Bridge. The P&W operated independently until 1888, when the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) leased it; four years later, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad obtained the lease when it purchased the NYP&B. The P&W continued to exist as a company, as special rules protecting minority shareholders made it prohibitively expensive for the New Haven to purchase the company outright. The New Haven continued to lease the Providence and Worcester for 76 years, until the former was merged into Penn Central (PC) at the end of 1968. Penn Central demanded the shareholder rules keeping P&W alive be rewritten, and also th Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 19 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-08-19T20:44:15.000Z
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