2018 December Auction Catalog

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5431 , 1903 Legigh Valley Lot# 5438 , Lehigh Valley Railroad Railroad Co of New Jersey Stock, #3 Mortgage Bonds (4) Purple #5956 I/C #3 Henry Drinker 5 shares 1903 $1000, orange #1013 $1000,brown signed by President Thomas. Tattered #4238 $250, mauve #1995 $250. bottom. Prag Collection Est. $50-80 Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# HWAC# 84963 84964 Lot# 5439 , 1892-1901 Lehigh Lot# 5432 , 1882 Lehigh & Hudson Valley Railroad Stocks (3) 3 I/C. River Stock I/C #193 John Seed 70 #89129 Henry Jones 8 shares 1892 shares 1882. Locomotive vignette. signed by President Garrett-left and Prag Collection Est. $60-120 HWAC# bottom toning. 3123477 Behj Gaskill 85105 30 shares 1901 signed by President illegible, 3 10c doc stamps-left and right toning. #85360 HL Caw 100 shares 1892 signed by President illegible. Prag Collection Est. $100- Lot# 5433 , 1864-1866 Lehigh & Mahanon 150 HWAC# 84966 Railroad Stocks (2) Unlisted I/C blue #177 Lot# 5440 , Lehigh Valley Railroad Charles Harts?? 62 shares 1864 signed by Stocks, 7 Different 7 different, mostly I/C. President Harts??? 25c revenue stamp. Brown #81877 1891, #23845 1920, #30187 1912, I/C #142 Israel Morris 80 shares 1866 signed by #27742 1957, #64265 1962, #260661 President Harts? 25c revenue stamp. Small train 1946, #271986 1946. Prag collection Est. vignette. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85129 $150-300 HWAC# 84965 Lot# 5434 , Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Stock Unissued. Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 85103 Lot# 5441 , 1890 Lehigh Valley Railway Bond I/C #9726 $1000 4.5% gold bond signed by President Garrett. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84961 Lot# 5435 , 1895 Lehigh and New York Railroad Stocks (2) I/C #12 Vermilye Rea? 100 shares signed by President illegible. #472 unissued. Nice vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. Lot# 5442 , 1913-1948 Lehigh Valley Transit $100-200 HWAC# 84968 Stocks, Two #1’s 2 I/C. Green #1 Thomas Biddle 100 shares signed by President illegible, $1 doc stamp .5” tear, creases. Orange #1 National Power and Light 545 shares 1948 signed by President illegible. rough condition. Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 84958 Lot# 5436 , 1895 Lehigh and New York Railroad Stocks (2) 2 unlisted varieties, hand written, I/C and both #4. Henry Drinker 1530 shares 1895 left toning. Wilson Bissell 5 shares Lot# 5443 , Lewiston, Nezperce 1895-left toning. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 and Eastern Railroad Stock HWAC# 84969 Unissued and unlisted #256. Prag Collection Est. $50-70 HWAC# 84957 Lot# 5437 , c1890’s Lehigh Avenue Railway Stocks (2) I/C #125 Wm Wisher 100 shares 1889 signed by President illegible. #572 unissued. Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 84967 Lot# 5444 , 1905 Lexington and Eatern Railway Debenture I/C#432 $390 signed by VP illegible 1905. Stain and left tear. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84956 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 299

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5445 , Lexington Union Lot# 5451 , 1881 Little Rock Mississippi River Station Stocks, 4 Different 4 early and Texas Railway Bond #525 $1000 7% bond, stocks, all I/C. #10 US Trust Co 94 signed by President illegible. Ran from Chicot shares 1922 signed by President on the Mississippi River to Little Rock. Prag McDonnell-left toning, #6 GE Evans Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 84946 50 shares 1920 signed by President illegible-rough condition, #15 JNO Scott 3 shares signed by President Parrish-toning, #3 A Mitchell 50 shares signed by President illegible- poor condition. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 84954 Lot# 5452 , 1908 Little Rock, Maumelle & Western Railroad Bond #550 10 year 6% gold Lot# 5446 , 1945 Lima Locomotive Works bond signed by President Illegible. Fair condition. Stocks (2) 2 I/c. Brown #42971 John Hoel 10 Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 84947 shares signed by VP Larsen, orange #25394 100 shares 1945 signed by President Larsen. Nice locomotive vignettes. Prag Collection Est. $60- 80 HWAC# 84953 Lot# 5453 , 1847 Little Schuylkill Navigation Rail Road and Coal Lot# 5447 , 1913-1922 Linville River Railway Loan Cert Unlisted and unissued. Stocks (2) 2 I/C. Unlisted #21 John Wise 1 Writing on rear. Rough edges. Prag shares 1913 signed by President Haskin, #16 AG Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84945 Steele #1 1922 signed by President illegible. Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 84951 Lot# 5454 , 1883 London South Park and Leadville Railroad Bond #32 $1000 first Lot# 5448 , Little Falls, NY Railroad Stocks (2) mortgage bond. 3 vignettes-2 of miner, 1 train 2 unissued. #60 Little Falls and Herkimer Street on bridge. Signed by President Smith. Prag Railway, #337 Little Falls and Dolgeville Railroad. Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83216 Prag Collection. Est. $60-80 HWAC# 84950 Lot# 5455 , 1921 Long Branch Coal Railroad Stock UnIisted. I/U #15 Lot# 5449 , Little Miami Railroad ES Jaucett 1 share 1921 signed by Stocks and Dividend Cert, 5 President illegible..5” tear and creases. Different I/C #23136 Irwin Ballman Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 3 shares 1909, 32040 10 shares 84944 1853, #45821 W Scarborough 100 shares 1862, 1 unissued. Dividend cert-1855. Nice vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 84949 Lot# 5456 , 1913 Lookout Incline Lot# 5450 , 1889 Little Rock and Memphis Railway Stock, #1 I/C #1 William Chrisman 96 shares 1913 signed by Railroad Stocks (2) Unissued #408, I/U #430 W President illegible. Prag Collection. Settles 100 shares signed by President Fink 1889. Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 84948 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84943 Lot# 5457 , 1911 Loop and Lookout Railroad Stock, #8 Unlisted. I/C #8 F Andrews 1 share 1911 signed by President illegible. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84942 300 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5458 , 1887 Los Angeles and Lot# 5462 , 1922 Louisville & Vernon Street Railway Stock #1 Nashville Terminal Stock Unlisted Issued #1 Frank Gibson 150 shares #28 995 shares 1922 signed 1887 signed by President Stephens. by President Illegible. I/C. Prag A horsecar line on Central Avenue Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# from 5th Street to Vernon Avenue in 84935 Los Angeles, inc 1887. Left toning. Prag Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 83206 Lot# 5463 , 1907 Louisville and Lot# 5459 , Louisiana and Eastern Railroad Stock I/U #393 Missouri River Railroad Stocks Ezra Hardin 10 shares 1907 signed (4) I/C #239 John ? 188 shares by President Fauvre. Prag Collection 1871 signed by President Block, Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84939 25c revenue stamp-fair condition. Unissued-#198, #582, #564-rough condition. “Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad, was originally chartered by the Missouri State Lot# 5464 , 1880 Louisville and Nashville Legislature to built a 216-mile rail Railroad Bond, #12 I/C #12 $1000 6% connection from Louisiana on the Mississippi River to Kansas City, bond signed by President Newcomb. Prag with a 50-mile branch from Mexico to Cedar City, on the Missouri Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84936 River opposite Jefferson City. On 1 August 1870 the line was leased to the Chicago & Alton Railroad for a period of 999 years. By 1872 the section from Louisiana to Mexico had been constructed. At this point the decision was made to abandon plans for a separate line from Mexico to Kansas City and to leave this to the Chicago & Alton. The company was thus left with a line of 101.59 miles from Louisiana to Cedar City. The Mexico to Cedar City section of the line was completed Lot# 5465 , Louisville and in 1876. The Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad eventually came Nashville Railroad Stocks, under the control of the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The Mexico to 3 Different 3 I/C. Brown #62 Louisiana section of the line is still in use by the Kansas City Southern Railroad.” from spellerweb.net. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# Wakefield Co 62 shares 1924, 84941 unsigned. Rust #170 10 shares , black #943 100 shares unsigned. Prag Lot# 5460 , 1874 Louisiana Central Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Railway Bond Unlisted. #107 $1000 7% 84937 gold bond. Signed by President illegible. We could not find any info online about this Lot# 5466 , 1866 Louisville City RR. All coupons intact, fair condition. Prag Collection. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 84940 Rail Way Co Stock I/U to Shenley 1866 signed by President Boyle. 25c revenue stamp. Streetcar vignette. “The Louisville Railway Company was a streetcar and interurban rail operator in Louisville, Kentucky. It Lot# 5461 , 1856 Louisville & began under the name Louisville City Nashville Railroad Stock Unlisted Railway in 1859 as a horsecar operator and slowly acquired other rival I/U #1159 Th Buck? 1856 signed by companies. It was renamed in 1880 following the merger of all Mule President illegible. “Class I railroad operations as the Louisville Railway Company.” from wikipedia. . 2x that operated freight and passenger .75” tears, one with rear tape, creases. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 services in the southeast United HWAC# 83231 States. 6 vignettes-2 man’s portraits, Lot# 5467 , 1864 Louisville City native American, train, bee hive, Railway Stock, #1 ?C #1 A Hager allegorical woman. “Chartered by 50 shares 1864 signed by President the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of Boyle. “a streetcar and interurban the great success stories of American business. Operating under one rail operator in Louisville, Kentucky. name continuously for 132 years, it survived civil war and economic It began under the name Louisville depression and several waves of social and technological change. City Railway in 1859 as a horsecar Under Milton H. Smith, president of the company for thirty years, the operator and slowly acquired other L&N grew from a road with less than three hundred miles (480 km) rival companies. It was renamed in 1880 following the merger of all of track to a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system serving fourteen states. As Mule operations as the Louisville Railway Company. All tracks were one of the premier Southern railroads, the L&N extended its reach far 5 ft gauge.” From wikipedia. creases. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 beyond its namesake cities, stretching to St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans. The railroad was economically strong throughout its HWAC# 85100 lifetime, operating both freight and passenger trains in a manner that earned it the nickname, “The Old Growth of the railroad continued until its purchase and the tumultuous rail consolidations of the 1980s which led to continual successors.” from wikipedia. 2 rear tape repairs, please inspect. Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 84938 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 301

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5468 , Louisville Railway Lot# 5475 , 1884 Loyalsock Stocks, 3 Different Unissued #996. Railroad Stock I/C #4 John I/C-orange #1172 1891, green #2726 Fanshawe 125 shares signed by 1895. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 President illegible. Left toning. Prag HWAC# 84931 Collection. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 84928 Lot# 5469 , 1894 Louisville, New Albany and Lot# 5476 , 1849 Lykens Valley Chicago Railway Bond Unlisted and unissued, no Rail Road & Coal Stock Unknown number. Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# variety. I/C #253 Edward Faile 30 84932 shares 1849 signed by president Hoffman. Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 84926 Lot# 5477 , 1833 Lykens Valley Lot# 5470 , 1870 Louisville, New Rail Road & Coal Stock An unknown Albany and Chicago Railway Stock variety. I/C #18 Israel Carpenter 2 Rare I/C #361 10 shares 1870 signed shares 1833. Signed by President by President illegible. 1” tear and Schreins. “Originally chartered in creases. Prag Collection. Est. $150- 1830. Operation began April 1834. 300 HWAC# 84933 Leased by the Northern Central Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Known as the Summit Branch of the Lot# 5471 , 1884 Lousiville, Northern Central Railroad in the Albany and St. Louis Railway 1880’s. Shown with associated coal mining operations as it was in the 1880’s”. from productforums. google.com. Creases, 2 small rear tapes. Printers Proof Bond Folded thick Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84927 paper printers proof. 2 locomotive vignettes. Corner chips and 1” tear. Lot# 5478 , 1853 Lyons Iowa Central Rear paste residue on a section.Sold Railroad Bond Unlisted. I/U #628 as is. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 $1000 7% bond signed by VP illegible. HWAC# 84934 We could not find much info on this company. Tears, holes, toning, rear tape. Lot# 5472 , 1881 Lowell & Sold as is. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 Framingham Railroad Stocks (3) HWAC# 84925 Unissued red. I/C red was unknown #106 Annie Hunt 1 share 1881 signed by President illegible. I/C black #28 14 shares 1881 signed by President illegible. “The Framingham Lot# 5479 , 1858 Malden and and Lowell Railroad was a railroad in Melrose Railroad Co Stock I/C #64 Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It to Rice 5 shares. Signed by President was incorporated in 1870 to provide Eames. An early horse drawn railroad a rail connection between the growing railroad hub of Framingham incorporated in 1854. Left toning. and the important mill city of Lowell, passing through the towns of Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Sudbury, Concord, Acton, Carlisle, Westford and Chelmsford.” from 83227 wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84930 Lot# 5473 , 1872 Lowell Horse Rail Road Co Stock I/C #143 Lucy Lot# 5480 , 1876 Memphis City ? 3 shares 1872 signed by President Railroad Co Stock I/C #529 Thomas illegible. Traction vignette. Revenue stamp missing. Prag Collection. Est. Barrett 200 shares 1876 signed by $150-300 HWAC# 83232 President Vredenburgh? Saddled horse vignette. Top chip and rough edge, toning. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83228 Lot# 5474 , 1867 Lowell Horse Rail Road Stock I/C #93 Geo Syracuse 100 shares 1867 signed by President Lot# 5481 , 1857 Michigan Southern and Northern W Serrington. Traction vignette. Prag Indiana Rail Road Co Stocks 2 different I/C with Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84929 center X tears. Black #984 Lockwood and Co 100 shares 1857 signed by President illegible. Red #1097 12 shares 1857 signed by President illegible. Left toning. Train and tunnel vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 83226 302 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5482 , 1897 Mine Hill Railroad Stock, Lot# 5486 , 1867 New Orleans, #9 Rare variety. I/C #9 Lehigh and Hudson Mobile and Texas Railroad Bond River Railroad 100 shares 1897. Signed by I/C #763 $1000 8% second mortgage President illegible. Coal hauling railroad. bond. Signed by President Allen. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85104 2 punch holes, all coupons intact. Train on river bridge vignette. “Construction of the railroad between Mobile and New Orleans was started Lot# 5483 , Minneapolis & St. Louis by the New Orleans, Mobile & Railroad Stock (3) 3 Unissued. Purple, Chattanooga Railroad in 1869, and black stocks. Olive scrip cert for stock.”T it was completed in 1871. That year, the name of the railroad was American Class I railroad that built and changed to the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad. The Louisville operated lines radiating south and west from & Nashville Railroad leased the NOM&C on May 8, 1880, and bought Minneapolis, Minnesota for 90 years from the railroad at a mortgage foreclosure sale on October 5, 1881.” from 1870 to 1960. The railway’s most important msrailroads.com. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 83264 route was between Minneapolis and Peoria, Illinois; a second major route extended from Lot# 5487 , 1859 New York & Minneapolis into eastern South Dakota, Boston Rail-Road Stock I/U #133 and other trackage served various areas Oliver Philips 3 shares 1859 signed in north-central Iowa and south-central by president Ely. Vignette of 2 trains Minnesota. The M&StL was founded in 1870, and river bridge. 1 punch hole, upper and expanded through line construction and left dogear. Otherwise nice condition. acquisition until the early 20th century. Most Prag Collection Est. $300-600 of the railway’s routes saw only relatively HWAC# 83250 light traffic, and consequently the company’s financial position was Lot# 5488 , 1902 New York and frequently precarious; the railroad operated under bankruptcy Long Island Railroad Stock I/C protection between 1923 and 1943.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83252 handwritten #65 Francis Smythe 5 shares 1902. Signed by President Lot# 5484 , Nevada and Oregon Railroad Company Stock illegible. Train vignette. Prag Certificate - Worth Dying Over? When is a stock certificate, not really Collection. Est. $150-300 HWAC# a stock certificate? Well this Number 7 for 1,000 shares to Tranmor 83249 Coffin on September 16, 1881 may not be one. First of all the Nevada and Oregon was a nightmare! It was organized to start at one city, but never even went there. It was planned to go south, but was built Lot# 5489 , 1858 North Lebanon Rail north. It had to go through five name changes. It took three years to Road Bond I/C #10 $250 1858. Signed lay enough track to go from Reno to Sun Valley - a Reno suburb. And by President Illegible. Train vignette. then this may not be a real stock certificate. The stock holders were corner missing, toning, pen cancel, rear furious. They voted to add more stock to the company and gave it all ink bleed thru. Please inspect, sold to themselves so they would have the majority at the next meeting. as is. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 The management was incensed. The meeting ended up in a violent HWAC# 83251 argument where several people were shot and one killed! So, is this a legitimate stock certificate? You decide! Est. $150-250 HWAC# 99479 Lot# 5485 , NV Railroad Group of 4: Nevada vs CPRR, End of Lot# 5490 , 1870 Oregon & the BM &L and CPRR Expense Bills 1) Death Knell for the Battle California Rail Road check Check Mountain & Lewis Railroad: 1887 official document providing sale of #409 to Geo Weidler? signed by the Battle Mountain & Lewis RR by the Lander County sheriff for back Ben Holladay. 1870 Est. $100-200 taxes for this very short line even by Nevada short line standards. 2) HWAC# 83331 Warren Williams and the Southern Pacific. Williams was key to getting the spur track to Fallon as shown by this bill to the SP. 3) Early 1871 Lot# 5491 , 1870 Oregon and Central Pacific Expense Bill and Palisade Fast Freight Billhead: Lot of California Rail Road Co Check two: November 18, 1871 CPRR bill for mining equipment to [and here Check # 182 Portland, OR signed by is where it gets interesting] Mr. ‘A’ [inside a curved box], over ‘P’. Also Ben Holladay, orange underprint. a Palisade Fast Freight Line billhead. Dated November 20, 1871 - two Train vignette. Prag Collection. Est. days after the CPRR bill. Addressed to ‘A’ [inside a curved box]. Geo. $100-200 HWAC# 83215 Atwood, Eberhardt. 4) Nevada vs CPRR: In 1859 the Central Pacific RR changed the face of NV forever. The state of Nevada and the United Lot# 5492 , Pacific American States of America had given this railroad a great deal of importance Company Three different unissued and power to build the line. This made men a few men very powerful stocks for Pacific American and, I might add, very, very rich. In the 1870’s NV took an economic Company.1) 100 shares of common turn for the worse. But the railroad kept on showing unbelievable stock, 2) Preferred stock 3) 100 profits each month. The people of NV and the local governments shares of preferred stock. Unlisted in decided it was time that the railroad pay their fair share! This is an Hansen Printer: Schwaracher-Frey- official notice to the Central Pacific RR from Lander for the taxes owed San Francisco. Ken Prag Collection. posted by Sheriff B. C. Thomas. A newspaper delinquent tax notice Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83629 that was posted from April 5, 1880 to May 1st. Historical background information included! Est. $150-300 HWAC# 99480 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 303

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5493 , 1903 Pacific Coast Lot# 5496 , 1865 Pacific Railroad Express Stock Unlisted. I/U #6 Bond I/C #47 $1000 7% bond. Edward Cookingham 7 shares 1903 Harbor, globe and train vignette. signed by Presidend Bayley. Est. Signatures light and illegible. 2 50c $200-500 HWAC# 84211 revenue stamps. Folds and wrinkles. Prag Collection. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 84104 Lot# 5497 , 1916 Paducah & Lot# 5494 , 1863 Pacific Rail Illinois Railroad Stock Unlisted. #30 Hale Holden 3 shares 1916 signed Road Bond Bond #446 for $500. issued July 1, 1863 by the County by Hale Holden. Left toning. Prag of Sacramento. 17.25”x12.25” Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# Cancelled written with Paid stamp. 84219 One unused redemption coupon attached. Two redemption stamps, one for 25 cents and one for 5 cents affixed to the front. Fair condition, creased with small tears. The bond Lot# 5498 , 1919 Paducah Traction was used to raise money for the First Transcontinental Railroad under and Light Co Stock Unlisted. #59 Sec. 5 of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. Specifically, it was used 30 shares 1919 signed by Webster. to build the Central Pacific Railroad, which runs from San Francisco “Paducah, like many other cities in to Promontory, Utah. There it meets the Union Pacific Railroad line the early 20th century, had more running back east, where the famous “Golden Spike” was driven to join than just railroads. There were them. Central Pacific Railroad was an extremely important railroad also streetcars. From 1887 to 1932 completing the railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Paducah had streetcars. In 1915 The President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act on July 1, 1862. This Paducah Traction and Light company authorized the Central Pacific and Union Pacific to build the railroad had 19.1 miles of track (including to the Pacific Ocean. The railway line included over one dozen tunnels. sidings etc.). They had 23 closed cars, The first rail lines were laid in 1863. Over 95% of the work was done 9 open cars, 16 semi convertible cars and 3 miscellaneous cars. The by Chinese workers. Work completed seven years ahead of schedule. streetcar system started life as the Paducah Street Railway Company Financing created by governor of California and railroad baron, Leland and morphed into several different companies throughout the Stanford, railroad baron Collis Huntington, American educationist, years. Electric streetcars were introduced to Paducahin 1887.” from theologian and president of Williams College, Mark Hopkins and wikipedia. Creases and holes. Prag Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# Charles Crocker, construction supervisor and president of Charles 84218 Crocker & Co. Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 82225 Lot# 5499 , 1876 Painesville, Canton Lot# 5495 , 1873 Pacific Rail & Bridgeport Narrow Gauge Railroad Road of Missouri Stock I/C #6798 Bond Unlisted #1581 $100 6% gold bond Timpson & Gilespie 100 shares signed by President Waddell. All coupons 1873. Signed by President Daup? intact. Operated from 1875-1880. Prag “On July 4, 1851, ground was broken Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84217 at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The first section of track was completed in 1852; in 1865, it was the first railroad in Kansas City, after construction was Lot# 5500 , 1919 Palatine, Lake Zurich & interrupted by the American Civil War. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad Wauconda Railway Bond Unlisted I/C #591 $100 was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors 6% bond, specimen. “11-mile short-line railroad after a railroad debt crisis. Because of corporate ties extending back built to connect the towns of Palatine, Lake Zurich, to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] advertised and Wauconda in the northern part of the U.S. state itself as being “The First Railroad West of the Mississippi”. Missouri of Illinois. Justin Orvis and Robert Wynn founded Pacific was under the control of successful but controversial New this railroad” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. York financier Jay Gould from 1879 until his death in 1892. Gould developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, $100-200 HWAC# 84216 Texas, and Louisiana. His son George Gould inherited control upon his father’s death, but lost control of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1915.[1] The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Lot# 5501 , 1910 Pan American Trans Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Continental Railway Bond Rare#169 $1000 5% Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Missouri Pacific later acquired or 50 year gold debenture bond signed by President gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Kelvey. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and 84215 Pacific Railway. MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. The company was reorganized and the trusteeship ended in 1956.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84220 304 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5502 , 1937 Pan Handle Lot# 5508 , 1916 Pennsylvania and New Jersey Traction Stock Unlisted. I/U #219 Railroad Bond #1 Unlisted bond #1 cancelled Charles Klee 90 shares 1937 signed $500 first mortgage gold bond signed by president by President Cryer? Poor condition. Allen. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84231 Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84214 Lot# 5503 , Parkside Rapid Lot# 5509 , 1882 Pennsylvania, Slatington Transit Street Railway Stock and New England Railroad Bond Issued/ Unissued and unissued #70, right paid # 285 $1000 signed by President Rice. edge rough. Prag Collection. Est. Nice locomotive and 2 allegorical women $50-80 HWAC# 84212 vignette. “The Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad was formed June 22, 1882 as a consolidation of the Pennsylvania and New England Railroad (NJ Division) and Lot# 5504 , 1904 Pascagoula Street Railway Delaware and Slatington Railroad, to build from Slatington, Pennsylvania to Pine Island, New and Power Bond Unlisted. #321 $1000 5% gold York. In December of that year, John L. Blair, who bond signed by President Anderson. Creases. Prag controlled the nearby Bangor and Portland Railway, acquired control Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84236 of the PS&NE, in order to give the B&P direct access to New England and other points. Additionally the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Lehigh and Lackawanna Railroad could no longer access points on the B&P. Construction was carried out through 1883, with grading finished in Pennsylvania and about 12 miles west from Sussex, New Jersey. The bridge over the Delaware River at Portland was built, and rails were laid for about half of the length in Pennsylvania. In early 1883 Lot# 5505 , 1904 Pascagoula Street a dispute erupted with the Wind Gap and Delaware Railroad over the tracks between Pen Argyl and Bangor, which the PS&NE wanted Railway and Power Stock Unlisted to use. Later that year the company went bankrupt and construction I/U #29 50 shares 1904 signed by stopped.” from wikipedia.com. Prag Collection. Est. $70-100 HWAC# President Ballard. “The streetcar ran 84229 from Moss Point down Pascagoula, all the way to the beach, turning on Lot# 5510 , 1853 Penobscot & Commerce and then to Anderson Kennebec Railroad Bond I/U #133 Park, a streetcar and electric park. $500 signed by President David. 1” It also ran down Krebs Avenue, with right tear. Prag Collection. Est. $60- a loop near the L & W depot. Ice was an important commodity in 100 HWAC# 84228 Pascagoula because of the seafood industry--it was needed to keep seafood from spoiling in the pre-refrigeration days. The importance of electricity to the local economy is obvious. In 1919 Ebb J. Ford purchased the company and operated it until 1921, when he Lot# 5511 , 1853 Penobscot & Kennebec disbanded streetcar service due to the prevalence of the automobile.” from flickr.com. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84235 Railroad Bonds (2) I/U #117 $1000 signed by President illegible. I/C #132 $500 signed by President David. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84225 Lot# 5506 , 1872 Paterson and Little Falls Horse Railroad Stock Unlisted as a stock. I/U #57 James Crooks 11 shares 1872 signed by President Hockenberry. 25c revenue Lot# 5512 , 1855 Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad stamp. Prag Collection. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 84234 Bonds (2) 2 different I/C. #36 $1000 red, #259 $400 blue. “The Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad (P&K) is a historic U.S. railroad which operated in Maine. Lot# 5507 , 19101 Pay As You Enter Car Corp The Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad Co. received a charter on April 5, 1845, and built a line between Stocks (2) 2 I/U. Brown #122 Wallace Draper Bangor, Maine and Waterville, Maine. At Waterville, 10 shares 1910 signed by VP illegible. Orange the P&K connected with the Androscoggin and #119 Wallace Draper 5 shares 1910 signed by VP illegible. What a novel name! Prag Collection Est. Kennebec Railroad (A&K). At North Maine Junction, $100-300 HWAC# 84233 the A&K connected with the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad. In 1845, the year that the P&K was chartered, a law was enacted permitting both the P&K and A&K to consolidate under a new name. The legislation was not acceptable to both companies, thus the A&K was chartered in 1847. The P&K and A&K did not merge until after the contentious section of the previous merger legislation was repealed on September 9, 1862. The following month on October 28, 1862, the A&K and P&K merged to form the Maine Central Railroad.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84226 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 305

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5517 , 1861 Peoria & Bureau Valley Railroad Stock I/C #567 William Tilden 50 shares 1861. “The railroad of the Peoria and Bureau Valley is a single-track, standard- gauge, steam railroad, located entirely in Illinois, and extending from Bureau to Peoria, 46.946 miles. The Peoria and Bureau Valley also owns 21.571 miles of other tracks, making 68.517 miles of all tracks. Incorporated in Illinois under special act of the General Assembly approved February 12, 1853, granting it a perpetual charter and authority to “construct a railway from the City of Peoria, Ill., to a point in Illinois below Indiantown in the valley of Bureau River.” The charter was amended on February 27, 1854, to allow the terminus in the Bureau River Valley to be fixed at any place most advantageous. The line of the Peoria and Bureau Valley was constructed under contract dated May 27, 1853, by Sheffield, Farman and Company, and opened for operation on February 1, 1855, on which date it was turned over Lot# 5513 , ra Penobscot Central Railway Bond #65 $1000 first to the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company, predecessor of mortgage sinking fund 5% gold bond. Signed by President Beale. Prag the carrier, for operation. It has since been operated by the carrier or Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84227 predecessors of the carrier, being leased to the carrier in perpetuity under an agreement entered into with the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company on April 14, 1854.” from wikipedia. Signed by Thomas Durhant(Thomas Clark Durant was an American financier and Lot# 5514 , railroad promoter. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad Peoples Passenger in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Railway Co of Summit in Utah Territory. He created the financial structure which Philadelphia led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal” and Norman B Judd(Norman Buel Stocks, (3) 3 I/C. Judd was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, and the grandfather #865 EJ Moore 34 of U.S. Representative Norman Judd Gould of New York. Born in shares 1893 signed Rome, New York, Judd received a liberal schooling. He studied law. by President Carson- He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in his creases. #241 hometown). Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84221 Walker Bonream Lot# 5518 , 1856 Peoria & Oquawka 100 shares 1882 Rail Road Stock I/U #364 5 shares signed by President 1856 signed by president Bisbee? “ The illegible-left toning. eastern extension began construction, #8603 Rueben three years after its charter, in 1855. Buckley 100 shares The Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway 1891 signed by President illegible- was chartered in 1863, and opened rough condition. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84222 in 1868 from the state line at Indiana across Illinois to the Mississippi River Lot# 5515 , People’s Passenger at Warsaw. This line was reorganized as the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway Stocks, 3 Different 3 I/U Railroad in 1880 and leased to the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific small mint color, yellow #1189, large mint color. Prag Collection. Est. Railroad. The lease lasted four years and the Toledo, Peoria & Western $100-200 HWAC# 84224 Railway took over in 1887. The Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway was incorporated in Illinois on March 28, 1887, and consolidated the operation of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway and the Logansport, Peoria & Burlington Railroad. The LP&B built from Galesburg to East Burlington, Illinois in 1855, and reached Gilman, Illinois in 1857 and Effner in 1859. A TP&W passenger train was involved in the Lot# 5516 , 1891 Peoples Railway Great Chatsworth Train Wreck in Chatsworth, Illinois in 1887.” from Co of Dayton, OH Stock I/C #416 wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84247 Frank Pryor 500 shares 1891 signed Lot# 5519 , Peoria & Pekin Terminal by President Crowley. Streetcar vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $60- Railway Bonds and Stock Stock-Peoria 100 HWAC# 84223 and Pekin Terminal Railway #123 Tucker Anthony & co 57 shares-left adhesive residue. Bonds-brown#215 $1000, green #541 $1000. Prag Collection. Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 84246 306 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5520 , 1853 Peoria and Lot# 5525 , 1861 Peru & Hannibal Railroad Stock with Indianapolis Railroad Bond Very Phony Mark Twain Sig I/U #139 rare bond. #117 $200 signed by Owen Davies 100 shares 1853 signed President Macy. Prag Collection Est. by President Ingersoll. Phony Mark $200-400 HWAC# 84251 Twain sig as secretary, likely by Graham Hardy of Virginia City, NV in 1960’s. Prag Collecton. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84248 Lot# 5521 , Peoria Railroad Stocks Lot# 5526 , c1890’s Peru and (3) 3 unissued Peoria stocks. Peoria Indiana Railway Stock Unlisted. Terminal Railway-toning, Peoria Unissued, right edge condition issues. Railway Ternianl, Peoria, Decauter Prag Collection Est. $60-10 HWAC# and Mattoon Railroad. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84245 84252 Lot# 5522 , Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Stock Suite Lot# 5527 , 1873 Peterborough (45) 3 Green I/C. 2 unissued-brown, Railroad Stock I/U #195 Emily Yates olive. Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 3 shares 1873 signed by President HWAC# 84244 Scott. Prag Collection. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84250 Lot# 5528 , Phialdelphia Traction Co Stocks, 4 Different 4 I/C. #14540 Huhn & Glendinning 100 shares Lot# 5523 , 1931 Peoria, Hanna 1895, #3009 Chas Snish 100 shares City and Western Railway Stock 1891, #15632 Olive Supplee 2 shares 1921, #1585 Webster Dougherty 100 Unlisted. I/C #65 Peoria Terminal shares 1906. Prag Collection Est. Co 1994 shares 1931 signed by President Illegible. “The railroad of $100-150 HWAC# 84259 the Peoria, Hanna City and Western Lot# 5529 , 1901 Philadelphia & Brigantine Railway Company, hereinafter Railroad Stocks (2) 2 I/U to Julia Sealey, #50 called the carrier, is a single-track, and 57 2 shares each. Signed by President Veller. standard-gage, steam railroad, Connected Brigantine, NJ with Philadelphia. Fair located in western Illinois. The main condition. Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 HWAC# line extends westerly from Hollis 84254 to La Marsh, a distance of 4.471 miles. The carrier also owns 1.075 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 5.546 miles of all tracks owned and used. The carrier uses exclusively under lease land for right of way, including grading and ballast thereon, located at Hollis, and owned by the Peoria Terminal Company; also, other land for right of way, including grading and ballast thereon, also located at Lot# 5530 , Philadelphia and Hollis, and owned by the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad. A portion Baltimore Central Rail Road Stocks of the rails and fastenings in the carrier’s road is leased from The (4 different) I/U #184 Geo Nelson Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. The carrier is an 1 share 1856 signed by President industrial railroad. It serves, and is controlled by the same interests Taylor. Unissued 1856, black, blue that control the Crescent Coal Company of Peoria, Ill.” from wikipedia. with train vignette. “operated in 5 doc stamps. Right chip and stains. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Pennsylvania and Maryland in the HWAC# 84243 19th and early 20th centuries. It Lot# 5524 , 1887 Perry County operated a 110-mile main line between West Philadelphia and Railroad Stock, #11 I/U #11 WA Octoraro Junction, Maryland, plus ? 1 share 1887 signed by President several branch lines.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 Mortimer. Prag Collection Est. $200- HWAC# 84255 400 HWAC# 84253 Lot# 5531 , 1878 Philadelphia and Cape May Short Line Stock Unlisted. I/U #14 EG Blaisdell 1 share 1878 signed by President Andis. Creases, toning, rough edge. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84273 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 307

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5532 , 1881 Philadelphia and Chester Lot# 5538 , 1895 Philadelphia City Passenger County Railroad Bond #944 $100 6% bond. Signed Railway Bond #36 #36 $1000 bond. Prag by president Cox. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84265 HWAC# 84272 Lot# 5533 , Philadelphia and Easton Lot# 5539 , 1872-1898 Electric Railway Certs (4) I/U #32 Philadelphia City Passenger JC Hallinger 4 shares 1908 signed by Railway stocks (4) 4 I/C. #1425 H President Byars?-fair condition. Trust Fell 3 shares 1898, #533 53 shares cert #35 6 shares J Mould 1908. Trust 1872, #347 Marke and Bro 5 shares cert #236 Jonathan Mould 2 shares 1876, #81 Phineas Fries 20 shares 1903-poor condition. #477 $1000 5% 40 1878. Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 year gold bond 1904 signed by President HWAC# 84262 Rauschberger. Prag Collection. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 84270 Lot# 5540 , Philadelphia Company Lot# 5534 , Philadelphia and Stocks(3) 3 different I/C. Brown #13462 1911, blue #861 1908, Easton Transit Certs (4) Unlisted. orange #3176 1928. Prag Collection. Stocks-orange #20 Jonathan Mould Est. $50-80 HWAC# 84261 6 shares 1922 signed by President Sickler, blue 320 Jonathan Mould 6 shares 1922 signed by President Sickler. Scrip certs-green #15, brown #15 both signed by sec. Chambers. All Lot# 5541 , 1877-1893 Philadelphia, have pin holes. Prag collection Est. Newtown and New York Rail Road Stocks $100-250 HWAC# 84271 (2) Unlisted in 1st edition. #126 Chalky White 6 shares 1877 signed by President illegible, 3 Lot# 5535 , 1882-1893 nice vignettes-creases, toning and hole, rough Philadelphia and Reading Railroad condition.#87 Lizzie DeCoursey 84 shares 1893 Stock Receiver Notes and Bond signed by President Boyd-pin holes. Est. $150- (3) Bond- #23124 $1000 deferred 300 HWAC# 84260 income, all coupons attached. 2 I/C receiver notes-#13 Philadelphia Warehouse $500 1893, #69 Charles Spring $100 1893. Prag Collection Lot# 5542 , 1873 Philadelphia, Est. $120-150 HWAC# 84269 Newtown and New York Railroad Bond #5687 $100 6% bond signed Lot# 5536 , 1946-1955 Philadelphia and by President Sichel. “The Newtown Railroad was chartered on April Trenton Railroad Stocks (2) 2 i/c. Olive #3 2, 1860, as the Philadelphia & 1955, purple #212 1946. Staple holes. Prag Collection Est. $40-80 HWAC# 84267 Montgomery County Railroad Company. The Newtown’s early history was a part of the competition to control rail traffic between New York City and Philadelphia. By the 1860s, there were two lines running between Philadelphia and New York by the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company (NJRR) and the Camden & Amboy Railroad (C&A). On February 1, 1867, the C&A and NJRR were informally joined as the United New Jersey Lot# 5537 , Philadelphia and Railroad and Canal Companies (UNJ). The Pennsylvania Railroad Western Railway Stocks, 3 (PRR) approved a lease of the UNJ on May 15, 1871, and the UNJ Different 3 I/U. Brown #2387 approved May 19. The lease was made December 1 and the PRR began 1936, black #2807 1936, blue #20 operating the UNJ that day. The PRR thereby established a monopoly 1935. Turquoise receipt 1935. Prag on New York-Philadelphia rail traffic. A rival line, the National Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# Railway, was planned, but the PRR’s influence in the Pennsylvania 84266 and New Jersey legislatures hindered its development. Pennsylvania’s legislature passed a bill on January 29, 1873, to change the railroad’s name to Philadelphia, Newtown & New York Railroad Company and authorized it to extend its railroad to a bridge to be constructed across the Delaware River to connect with the Mercer & Somerset Railway. In that same year on October 22, the PRR leased the line in order to block the National’s path.” from wikipedia. All coupons attached. Tattered top. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 84241 308 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5543 , 1838 Philadelphia, Lot# 5548 , Wilmington and Baltimore Rail 1916 Pittsburgh Road Stock Unlisted. Unissued/ & Susquehanna cancelled. “The Philadelphia, Railroad Stock Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Unlisted. I/U (PW&B) was an American railroad #79 James company itself a result of merger Gilbert 2 shares of four small lines dating from the 1916 signed earliest days of American railroading by president in the late 1820s and early 1830s, that operated from 1836, until being illegible. 6 bought by a larger regional line in 1881, with a merger into a longer doc stamps. Northeast Corridor railway in 1902. It built the first rail line south “operated from Philadelphia into The South. Founded in 1831 as the Philadelphia between and Delaware County Rail-Road Company, the PW&B had within six Philipsburg years changed its name and merged with three other state-chartered and Fernwood, railroads in three Middle Atlantic states to create a single line between Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1881, the with a 2-mile (3.2 km) branch to Beaver Run. The main line had been PW&B came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), the built by the Altoona and Philipsburg Connecting Railroad (nicknamed larger one of then two dominant rail.line companies in the Northeast the “Alley Popper”, incorporated in July 1892. Through successive United States.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# foreclosures and reorganizations, the property passed to the New 84264 York and Pittsburgh Air Line Railroad in April 1906, the Philipsburg Railroad in January 1907, the Philipsburg and Susquehanna Valley Lot# 5544 , 1910 Phoenixville, Railroad in December 1909, and the Pittsburgh and Susquehanna Valley Forge & Stafford Electric Railroad in March 1910. Finally, in August 1913, that company was Railway Bonds Brown #703 $500 reorganized once more, under the same name. The railroad staged a signed by President O’Connell. Green train wreck in 1914 for the film The Valley of Lost Hope, a western #302 $1000 signed by President directed by Romaine Fielding. The line was abandoned in 1936; it had O’Connell. Prag Collection Est. $80- been placed in receivership in April 1931 and ceased operations on 100 HWAC# 84257 August 8, 1931 due to poor track condition.” from wikipedia. 2 seam tears. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84900 Lot# 5545 , 1871-1918 Pickering Valley Lot# 5549 , 1892 Pittsburgh Railroad Stocks (2) Unlisted I/C 229 DD Weikert & West End Stock Certs. 1) No. 1 share 1918 signed by President illegible.I/C #117 172 for 10 shares. Passenger William Ralston 5 shares 1871 signed by President Railway Co. Signed by President Cowen 25c revenue stamp. Both in poor condition with tears, sold as is. Prag Collection Est. $100- Jack Neelley(?); punch canceled. 200 HWAC# 84256 2) No. 159 for 100 shares issued to William J. Burres. Punch canceled. Has beautiful vignette of trollie cars. From the Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Lot# 5546 , Piitsburgh, Cincinnati, HWAC# 84415 Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Bonds (2) I/C #7896 $1000 5% gold 1925 bond signed by President illegible. I/U #32 $1000 5% gold bond 1929 signed by President South. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84275 Lot# 5550 , 1895- 1916 Pittsburgh and Lot# 5547 , 1902-1909 Pittsburg, Shawmut and Eastern Railroad Co Northern Railroad Stock and Bond Unlisted railroad. Stocks , 3 Different Stock-#263 Richard Hunt 31 shares 19209 signed by I/U #50 Philip President illegible, corner missing. Bond-#4368 $1000 Turner 20 shares 4% 50 year gold bond signed by President Smith? “The 1916-creases and Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad also known chips. #145 Margaret as the Shawmut Line, was a Class I railroad company Seyter 20 shares 1916, operating passenger and freight service on standard I/U #116 S Hicks 1000 gauge track in central Pennsylvania and western New shares 1895. Prag York.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 Collection. Est. $100- HWAC# 84914 200 HWAC# 84278 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 309

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5551 , 1859 Pittsburgh and Lot# 5558 , 1884 Pittsburgh, Steubenville Rail Road Stock I/C McKeesport and Youghiogheny #50 Charles Hotch? 20 shares 1859 Railroad Vanderbilt Stock I/C signed by President Jones. Train #125 to Cornelius Vanderbilt 100 station vignette. creases, small tears. shares 1884 signed by President Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# illegible. Pin holes, bottom wear. Prag 84276 Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84915 Lot# 5559 , 1886 Pittsburgh, Lot# 5552 , 1895 Pittsburgh McKeesport and Youghiogheny Grafton and Mansfield Street Railroad Stock I/C #268 Cornelius Vanderbilt(rear signature) 1000 Railway Stock, #7 Unlisted. I/C #7 shares 1886 signed by president James Callery 100 shares 1895 signed illegible. Est. $250-400 HWAC# 83269 by President Kelly? Consolidated with West End Traction. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84274 Lot# 5560 , 1885 Pittsburgh, Lot# 5553 , 1887 Pittsburgh McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Stock I/C # 35 WH Traction Stock Unlisted. I/C #57 Vanderbilt 1000 shares 1885 signed William Elkins 500 shares 1887 by President illegible. Right corner signed by President illegible. Prag damage, sold as is. Prag Collection. Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 150 Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83270 84912 Lot# 5561 , 1884 Pittsburgh, Lot# 5554 , 1894 Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKeesport and Youghiogheny Manchester (Stock Certs) Stock certs. 1) No. Railroad Stock I/C #119 W Vanderbilt 100 shares 1884. Signed 224 for 100 shares issued to Henry J.Lotz& by President illegible. Crease and pin Reinhart F. Lotz Executors of Estate of Harvey J. holes. Prag Collection. Est. $200-300 Lotz. Punch canceled; 2) No. C111 for 5 shares issued to George B. Hill & Co. 1892, punch HWAC# 83271 cancelled. From the Ken Prag Collection. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 84414 Lot# 5562 , 1883 Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Lot# 5555 , c1917 Pittsburgh, Railroad Stock I/C #89 P Knox 100 shares 1883 signed on rear Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis by Cornelius Vanderbilt as acting Railroad Co. (4) 4 Stock Cert. of secretary. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie multi-colors. No. A5508 for 3874 originally entered the Connellsville shares, punch canceled, No. 29, for region as the Pittsburgh, McKeesport 100 shares, No. 337 for 100 shares, and Youghiogheny Railroad Company, March, 1891 to the Estate of Alfred incorporated in 1881 and leased to Dennis; Scrip Cert. No. 7 for $40 to the P&LE for 999 years in 1884. Locomotive and cars vignette, grape Emile Chipron issued 1917, punch color border. Prag Collection. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83273 canceled. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84411 Lot# 5563 , 1889 Pittsburgh, Lot# 5556 , 1885-1886 Pittsburgh, Marion McKeesport and Youghiogheny and Chicago Railway Stocks (2) I/U @21 T Railroad Stock I/C #389 Chauncey Meissner 192 shares 1886 signed by President C Depew 500 shares 1889. Signed by Colby-toning, #14 2495 shares 1885. “Sold Chauncey Depew on rear. “Chauncey at sheriff’s sale Apr. 13, 1896, to purchasing Mitchell Depew was an attorney committee, and acquired Apr. 16, 1896 from for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s railroad wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84902 interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.” “In 1881, the P&LE became linked with the notorious Lot# 5557 , 1901 Pittsburgh, South Pennsylvania Railroad (South Penn). This would lead to William McKeesport and Connellsville Henry Vanderbilt to control of the P&LE as a link in the South Penn and the building of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Stock I/C #14 Chas Knight Railroad. The South Pennsylvania Railroad was planned to connect 100 shares 1901 signed by President to the PM&Y.[2] Vanderbilt did this by buying Henry W. Oliver’s and illegible. $2 and 50c doc stamps. Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84901 the Harmony Society’s stock in the P&LE. Then Vanderbilt, aided by Andrew Carnegie, advanced the PM&Y all of the funds to build to Connellsville, Pennsylvania and then lease it to the P&LE for 99 years.” from wikipedia. Left toning. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84279 310 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5564 , 1906 Pittsburgh, Lot# 5570 , 1882 Port Royal and Augusta McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railway Bond I/C #147 $500 6% bond. Railroad Stock with Vanderbilt Sig Signed by President Rausch. “The Port I/C #1860 to William K Vanderbilt Royal Railroad Company was chartered in 500 shares 1906 signed by President 1856 and the line was completed in 1870. Illegible 1906. Signed on rear by In 1873, the Georgia Railroad provided WK Vanderbilt. Prag Collection. Est. financial assistance to the Port Royal $200-400 HWAC# 84913 Railroad Company, but Port Royal Railroad Company defaulted in November 1873 and Lot# 5565 , 1883 Pittsburgh, the railroad was sold to the Georgia Railroad McKeesport and Youghiogheny under foreclosure in June 1878, with the Union Trust Company of New York as Trustees. The Georgia Railroad Railroad Stock, #1A I/C #1A D reorganized it under the name Port Royal and Augusta Railway, and Hastutt? 500 shares 1883 signed by the company expanded. In 1881 Georgia Railroad leased its rail President illegible. Creases, pin holes, tattered top. Prag Collection Est. lines for 99 years to Colonel William M. Wadley, who assigned half $300-500 HWAC# 84904 of the interest to Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the other half to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. That same year, Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia acquired Lot# 5566 , 1908 Pittsburgh,Binghamton controlling stock in Port Royal and Augusta Railway. In 1893, the State of South Carolina filed suit in State of South Carolina v. Port Royal & Eastern Railroad Company Unlisted. and Augustra Railway Company, alleging that Central Rail Road and Temporary Stock Cert. No.234 for 3 shares to Banking Company of Georgia was intentionally diverting trade from Herman Seyter signed by President Lindsey Port Royal to its own lines by misuse of its voting power. Under the Hooper & Amended Reorganization Plan, April 1916. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84412 directors they appointed, the State alleged, the facilities of Port Royal Railroad Company had been allowed to deteriorate. Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia was forced into receivership and sold, reorganized as Central of Georgia Railway. Central’s purchasers, Ryan and Thomas, claimed to have purchased the company’s interest in the lease, a claim denied by one of the receivers. Louisville and Lot# 5567 , 1918 Pond Fork Nashville Railroad had continued to pay their lease and receive their profits, while Central of Georgia had not. In light of this, the Port Royal Railway Stock, #15 Unlisted. I/C #15 GB Nall 1 share 1918 signed by and Augusta Railway Company filed suited against Central of Georgia President illegible. 2c stamp, nice for unpaid leases. However, in 1894, before resolution of any suit, the gold seal. Carried lumber and coal in State of Georgia repealed the charter of the Port Royal and Augusta Boone County, WV. Prag Collection Railway and liquidated its assets, rendering legal action moot. By Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84911 1898, The Port Royal and Augusta Railway and the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway had been combined into the new Charleston and Western Carolina Railway.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 84909 Lot# 5568 , 1886 Port Jervis, Monticello and Lot# 5571 , 1854 Portsmouth & New York Rail Road Stock, with #1 Unissued/ Concord Railroad Stock I/U #1412 cancelled #1,left toning, rear taped cancel cuts. John Rider 1 share 1854 signed by I/C #40 M Graham 10 shares 1886 signed by President Haven? Creases and toning. President illegible. 2 cancel cuts. “Leaving New Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# York by the Erie R. R. from West Twenty-third 84905 Street, or Chambers Street, Port Jervis is reached quickly, almost before the distance traveled is realized. The P. J., M. & N. Y. R. R. connects with the Erie R. R. here. Pullmans run on the midday and through coaches on the evening trains. The Lot# 5572 , 1916 Portsmouth, road has been newly tied, ballasted, and entirely overhauled, and is Kittery and York St. Railway now in first-class order. New engines, and new passenger coaches. Cert. of Deposit Unlisted. I/U #24 The public can rely upon a first-class service and quick transportation, Ed Bailey $4000 1916 signed by with no delays. Sunday trains are run. The schedules of daily trains President Smith. “The line from are so arranged, that patrons can leave on the daily morning train Badgers Island to Kittery Point was from any of the places on this road and reach New York at 10.30 A. M. opened on August 12, 1897 by the Good fishing and hunting. Beautiful scenery. Good hotels, cool nights, Portsmouth, Kittery, & York Street and no mosquitoes; every night necessitating a blanket. No chills. Our Railway. It extended to York Village high altitude is a sure cure for insomnia.” from usgenweb.info. Prag on October 6, 1897 and then on Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84907 to York Beach on June 30, 1898. Lot# 5569 , 1914-1938 Port Jervis, Monticello The short extension to St. Aspinquid Park was completed in 1900.” from mainememory.net. Seam tears, rear tape, fair condition. Prag and Summitville Railroad Stock, 2 Different I/U Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84906 orange #57 Wm Mathieson 1 share 1938 signed by president illegible-dogear. Red #39 Frederick Lovelace 1 share 1914 signed by President illegible-2 dogears. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84910 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 311

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5573 , 1898 Potosi and Rio Verde Railway Stock with George Lot# 5577 , 1875 Poughkeepsie, Peabody Hartford & Boston Railroad Bond Sig I/C #3 #722 $100 Edward Elsworth 1875. All George Foster coupons intact. “The Poughkeepsie and Peabody 5 Eastern Railway was the first railroad to shares 1898 run east from Poughkeepsie, New York, signed by and was taken over by the New York, President New Haven and Hartford Railroad and illegible and assigned to the Central New England Peabody on Railway in 1907. On June 24, 1874 the rear. “July 27, company went into receivership. It 1852 – March was sold in April 1875 and reorganized May 15 as the Poughkeepsie, 4, 1938) was Hartford and Boston Railroad. It again went bankrupt and on January an American 26, 1884 the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad bought the banker section southeast of Boston Corners, to which they already had track and philanthropist. Peabody, his brother Charles Jones Peabody rights. The rest was sold in late 1886 and on January 22, 1887 it was and Spencer Trask amassed a great portion of their wealth from reorganized as the New York and Massachusetts Railway. Profit was the Edison Electric Company. Trask served as president of Edison still hard to come by, and it entered receivership for a third time in Electric Illuminating, and when J. P. Morgan—protégé of New England February 1893. It was sold under foreclosure March 2 and reorganized businessman/philanthropist George Peabody—financier of Edison April 13 once under the name, the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway Electric, merged all into the General Electric Company in 1892, George Company. Yet again, on June 17, 1898, the company went into Foster Peabody became a member of the GE board of directors.” 3 receivership. On July 12, 1904 P&E had a wreck at Salt Point when a stamps on rear. Prag Collection. Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 83268 passenger train was mistakenly switched to a siding where a freight train was waiting. The conductor on the passenger train was injured. In 1907 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad bought it Lot# 5574 , 1903 Pottstown & West Chester Electric and on June 25 merged it into the Central New England Railway.” from Street Railway Stock and Bond I/U stock #37 J Haines wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 84921 5 shares 1903 signed by VP Illegible. Bond-unlisted, #513 30 year 5% gold bond signed by President Lot# 5578 , 1912 Prospect Park illegible, 1 “ tears, toning. Prag Collection Est. $150- and South Brooklyn Railroad Bond 300 HWAC# 84924 I/C #37 John Berrigton 1 share 1912. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84920 Lot# 5575 , 188 Poughkeepsie Bridge Railroad Stock, #5 Lot# 5579 , 1905 Providence and Unlisted. I/C #5 Henry Gibson 1 Burrillville Street Railway Stock, share 1888 signed by President #24 I/C #24 Francis Fagan 3 shares Brock. “The Poughkeepsie Bridge 19056 signed by President Rathburn. Route was a passenger train route “J.P. Morgan owned stock in NY, New from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Haven and Railroad Company which Massachusetts, via Baltimore, owned all the stock of the Providence Maryland and Philadelphia, Securities Company. The Providence Pennsylvania. The route specifically Securities company held securities avoided the Port of New York, due to the lack of a rail crossing of North and owned stock in the Rhode Island River (Hudson River). Instead it passed over the Poughkeepsie Bridge Company which in turn owned the at Poughkeepsie, New York. Its Boston terminus was at North Station, Columbian Street Railway Company, Providence and Burrillville Street an advantage allowing for a direct transfer to Boston and Maine Railway.” from rihs.org. Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84919 Railroad lines to the north.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84923 Lot# 5580 , 1854 Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad Bond Lot# 5576 , 1894 Poughkeepsie City and Unlisted. I/C #97 $1000 6% bond, Wappinger’s Falls Electric Railway Bond #476 signed by President illegible. “The $1000 gold bond signed by President illegible. Prag Providence, Warren and Bristol Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84922 Railroad was a railroad in Rhode Island that connected the city of Providence with Bristol, Rhode Island. The company was formed in 1854 by merging the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Companies of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The 14.1-mile line itself was completed on July 12, 1855. Until 1862, a portion of the line crossed through part of the town of Seekonk, Massachusetts, which then became East Providence, Rhode Island as part of a boundary settlement between the two states. In 1865, the Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad built a branch off the line at Warren; in 1875, it was extended to Fall River, Massachusetts . On July 1, 1891, the line was leased to the Old Colony Railroad for 99 years. In 1893, the PW&B was absorbed into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, upon its lease of the Old Colony Railroad system.” from wikipedia. rear ink bleed thru. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84918 312 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5581 , Providence, Warren & Lot# 5588 , Richmond and York Bristol Railroad Stocks (5) Mostly unlisted River Rail Road Bond Very Rare. I/U in 1st edition. Blue I/C #412 W ?? 1 share #104 JW Beveridge $1000 1860 8% 1857. I/C #979 Edgar Dexter 1 share 1900- bond. Signed by President Alexander rear toning. I/U #739 Greene& Cranston 107 Dudley. Dudley was a Richmond shares 1872 signed by President Child, 25c attorney and Confederate who lived revenue stamp. I/U #1115 Adams & Peck 1 from 1820-1869. “The Richmond share 1927 signed by President Mattison. and York River Railroad Company I/C #146 Susan Waterman 10 shares was incorporated under an act of the 1886 signed by President Waterman. Prag Virginia General Assembly on January Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84917 31, 1853.[2][3] The State of Virginia subscribed to 60 per cent of the capital stock.[4] The company built and initially operated 39 miles Lot# 5582 , 1913 Pullman Railroad (63 km) of railroad line between Richmond, Virginia and West Point, Stock I/C #11 Pullman Co 2000 Virginia on the York River. The railroad prospered during the first shares 1913 signed by President year of the American Civil War but was wrecked during the Peninsula illegible. Left toning. .5’ seam tear. Campaign. It was rebuilt after the Civil War. In 1894, it became part of Prag Collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# the Southern Railway Company.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. 84238 $400-600 HWAC# 83267 Lot# 5589 , 1890 Rio Grand Junction Railway Stock Rare I/C #34 WF Sebert 100 shares 1890 Lot# 5583 , 1887 Pullman’s Palace signed by President illegible. “The Car Stock I/C #14020 Clarles Nare Rio Grande Junction Railway was a 1 share 1887. Signed by VP illegible. joint venture between the Colorado 3 vignettes train by old building, Midland and the Denver & Rio Grande allegorical, factory. Prag Collection Railroad?, set up in 1890 to build a Est. $60-100 HWAC# 84237 shared railroad line between New Castle, CO?, and Grand Junction, CO. Both railroads were trying to reach Grand Junction and the Rio Grande Western’s standard gauge connection to Salt Lake, and the decision was made to build one joint Lot# 5584 , 1887 Railroad Broadside Joint Freight railway rather than two competing, parallel routes. The last Colorado Tariff Between New York and all stations on the Hudson Midland train ran in 1919, but the Rio Grande Junction wasn’t merged River Division. 10.5” x 22.5”. Has some tearing at seam into the Denver & Rio Grande Western until 1947.” from drgw.net. Prag & light staining. Please inspect. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84207 84443 Lot# 5590 , 1890 Rio Grande Southern Railroad Bond Uncancelled #3167 $1000 first mortgage 5% gold bond signed by Otto Mears. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84203 Lot# 5585 , 1906-1911 Railroad Tie Stocks, 2 Different 2 I/U. United States Steel Railway Tie #167 Daw McCurran 100 shares 1906 signed by Lot# 5591 , 1922 Rio Grande Southern President illegible. Universal Metallic Tie #1745 Railroad Bonds Rare uncancelled #907 $1000 CS Tremuvan 50 shares 1911 signed by President 1922 signed by VP illegible. #4906 unissued illegible. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# $1000 first mortgage 5% gold bond. Prag 84119 Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84204 Lot# 5586 , 1913 Railroad Valley Land & Water Co Stock Rare Eastern, NV stock. #79 F Synatt 920 Lot# 5592 , 1892 Rio Grande shares 1913 signed by President Southern Railroad Stock I/C #48 Keenan. Prag Collection. Est. $50- Edward Richards 300 shares 1892 100 HWAC# 84208 signed by President Otto Mears. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84205 Lot# 5587 , Railway Equipment & Realty Co, 7 Different Specimens 7 Lot# 5593 , 1929 Rio Grande specimens. Blue, black, brown, dark Southern Railroad Stock Rare brown, mauve, turquoise, green, red and orange. Prag Collection. Est. I/U #535 Intl. Trust Co 62 shares $300-500 HWAC# 84209 1929. Mountain train vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84206 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 313

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5594 , 1881 Sabine Pass and Texas Northern Lot# 5600 , Salt Lake and Ogden Railway Bond Rare#29 $1000 first mortgage Railway Bonds (2) 2 I/C. #613 $500 sinking fund gold bond signed by President illegible. first mortgage 6% gold bond signed Franklin Bank Note Co. operated 200 miles from by President O’Neil 25c revenue Marshall,Texas to Sabine Pass, Gulf of Mexico. Prag stamp. #276 $1000 3 year 7% gold Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84202 bond signed by President ON’Neil 50c revenue stamp. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84176 Lot# 5595 , 1911 Sacramento and Woodland Lot# 5601 , Salt Lake and Ogden Railway Stock Railroad Bond #270 $1000 first mortgage 5% and Bond #70 unissued stock. #1359 bond 5% sinking gold 30 year bond. Signed by President 25 year gold bond signed by President Bamberger. illegible. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Street car vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 84200 HWAC# 84177 Lot# 5596 , 1921 Sacramento Lot# 5602 , 1923 Northern Railroad Stock I/C #14 Salt Lake and Utah Union Trust Co of San Francisco Railroad Stock I/U 9805/10000 shares 1921 signed by unlisted #449 CL President illegible. “The Sacramento Shields 1 share 1923 Northern Railway was an 183-mile signed by President electric interurban railway that illegible. “The Salt connectected Chico in northern Lake & Utah Railroad California with Oakland via the ran from Payson to California capital, Sacramento.” from Salt Lake City. The wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $100- line was built in 200 HWAC# 84201 1914 as an electric interurban. On April Lot# 5597 , 1909 Salem, Falls City and Western 3, 1914 it reached as Railway Bond #1 I/C #1 $1000 5% 25 year gold far as Pleasant Grove. bond. Signed by President Gerlinger. “In October, By 1916, the line 1901, Louis Gerlinger, Sr. and Charles K. Spaulding reached Payson. It was unofficially called the “Orem” after A. J. and W. announced plans to build a railroad from the C. Orem, who arranged the corporate financing to build the line. When Willamette River at Salem to the mouth of the Siletz the line was constructed as far as Provo, special-built new cars began River on the Oregon Coast, a distance of 65 miles running. They were dark red, thirty-six passenger capacity cars, each (105 km). The railroad was used for transporting divided into a freight compartment and two passenger compartments, timber. On May 29, 1903, the first train departed smoking and non-smoking. Each car was heated, lighted and powered from Dallas for Falls City. “ from wikpedia. Prag by four 110-horsepower Westinghouse motors, which drew electricity Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 84179 from overhead cables. The Salt Lake & Utah Railroad also carried the Lot# 5598 , 1911 Sallisaw, Mc Alester & United States mail and newspapers. Other freight included milk and produce along with regular every day commodities. A spur in Pleasant Southern Railway Bond Unlisted. #7 $1000 first Grove ran to a loading station under a dumping ramp where ore and mortgage 6% signed by President Dawley. Corner fire clay were loaded. The clay came from natural deposits on the hills chip. rough left edge. Prag Collection. Est. $150- east of town, mined there in two locations, the Homer/McFarland and 250 HWAC# 84178 the Wadley pits. The ore was hauled from mines in American Fork Canyon. Ridership was lively before the family car became popular in the mid 1920s. During the depression, and through WWII when gas was rationed, people again patronized the convenient rail system, which, due to its deterioration, was referred to as “The Red Heifer” or “Leaping Lena”. The line was closed in 1946, just after the war.” from Lot# 5599 , 1914 Salt Lake and Ogden Railway utahrails.net. Creases, corner missing, small tears. Prag Collection Est. Bond #3 #3 $1000 first mortgage 6% gold bond $100-200 HWAC# 84174 signed by VP Moore. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84175 Lot# 5603 , 1947 Salt Lake Rail & Bus Terminal Stock Handwritten I/U #9 Frank Barnes 5 shares 1947. Signed by President Bamberger. Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 84173 314 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5604 , 1893 San Diego Lot# 5609 , 1911 San Francisco, Napa and and Phoenix Railroad Calistoga Railway Bond Rare. #137 first mortgage Stock Rare and unusual 6% $100 25 year gold bond signed by President small cert with 2 side Earl.”In 1901, Col. J.W. Hartzell and his brother H.F. printing. #1348 I/U Wm Hartzell secured a franchise to build an electric Carlson 1 share, signed by railway line, which allowed them the right to President Carlson.Vignette build on city streets and along county roads. The of Thomas Scott, direct line line paralleled much of the already existing route East and San Diego. “The of the Napa Valley Railroad. In April 1902, the shortest trans-continental Benicia, Vallejo & Napa Valley Railroad Company route from the Pacific to the was incorporated. The line originated at the port Gulf”. Small punch hole. Prag of Vallejo where it met the ferry connecting to San Francisco. From Collection. Est. $200-400 there, it headed northwards for a total of 41.7 miles (67.1 km)[3] to HWAC# 84172 terminate at Calistoga, passing through Napa, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, and St. Helena. Construction of the railroad commenced in Lot# 5605 , c1860’s San Francisco 1903 and trains began running from Vallejo to Napa following a grand & San Jose Rail Road Bond opening on July 4, 1905. The line was extended to Yountville by 1907 and on January 1, 1908 the line extended St. Helena and followed by Unissued. Train vignette. 1” tear, left Calistoga on September 2, 1908. The railroad went through several toning, tattered edges, sold as is. Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# reorganizations and name changes throughout its lifetime. It was 84153 named San Francisco, Vallejo & Napa Valley Railroad in 1906 and 1911 it was renamed San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway Company. The railroad remained in operation until 1936. In 1938 22 miles (35 km) of track and power lines between Napa and Calistoga were removed.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84169 Lot# 5606 , 1908 San Francisco Lot# 5610 , 1911 San Francisco, and Bay Counties Railway Stock #4 Oakland and San Jose Con. Railway Rare I/C #4 George Pratt 10 shares stock Rare. I/C #197 J Frost 10 1908 signed by President illegible. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 shares 1911 signed by First VP HWAC# 84171 illegible. Nice ships vignette. Hole and creases. Prag Collection. Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 84164 Lot# 5607 , 1895 San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Lot# 5611 , San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railway I/C #119 30 Railways Stock and Bond Rare. Stock-I/C 1#451 shares 1895 signed FM Smith 5 shares 1912 signed by VP Alberger. Top by President illegible. fragment of $1000 6% bond. Prag Collection. Est. Nice train vignette. “In $100-200 HWAC# 84165 the shadow of soured relations with Spain, the second railroad to operate in Kern County was being constructed from San Francisco through Stockton and south into Bakersfield, right into what is currently the BNSF rail yard. The San Francisco and San Lot# 5612 , 1910 San Joaquin Joaquin Valley Railroad was known by informal names including the Valley Electric Railway Stock I/U “People’s Railroad,” and more commonly, the “Valley Road.” The idea #53 William Elling 1 share 1910 for building a second railroad down into the San Joaquin Valley grew signed by President Resnick. “The San from frustration with the monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad Joaquin Valley Railroad (reporting held over valley industry and agriculture.” from Bakersfield.com. No mark SJVR) is one of several short creases. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 84170 line railroad companies and is part of the Pacific Region Division of Genesee Lot# 5608 , 1923 & Wyoming Inc. It operates about 297 San Francisco miles (478 km)[1] of track primarily Sacramento Railroad on several lines in California’s Central Stock Rare. I/C #1209 Valley/San Joaquin Valley outside Fresno, California and Bakersfield, Barbara Payne 10 California. The SJVR has trackage rights over Union Pacific (formerly shares 1923 signed Southern Pacific) from Fresno - Goshen Jct - Famoso - Bakersfield - by President illegible. Algoso. The SJVR also operates for the Tulare Valley Railroad (TVRR) 2 punch holes. Prag from Calwa to Corcoran and Famoso. There were two former San Collection. Est. $100- Joaquin Valley Railroads. One was owned by Leland Stanford in 1870 200 HWAC# 84167 to build an 11.3-mile (18.2 km) line from Lathrop, California to the Stanislaus River and was consolidated into the Central Pacific Railroad. The second San Joaquin Valley Railroad operated from 1892–1893 between Fresno and Friant over 24.1 miles (38.8 km) of track and was sold at foreclosure to the Southern Pacific.” from wikipedia.com.1” tear, dogear, please inspect. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84168 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 315

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5613 , Santa Fe, Raton and Des Moines Lot# 5619 , Seward Peninsular Railroad Bond Rare unlisted. #992 first mortgage Railway Company Five hundred 5% $1000 gold bond 1906 signed by President shares of capital stock of Seward illegible. Operated between between Carisbrooke Peninsular Railway Company for Northwestern Development and Wallace, NM. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 Company, Number 13, dated January 7, 1907, signed by George T. HWAC# 84166 Williams, president. The Seward Peninsular Railroad is a former Alaskan railway company. In 1900 Wild Goose Railroad was established and on July 19 of that year the first 6.5 km stretch of railway from Nome to Discovery was laid. The trains couldn’t run in the winter season due to the weather. In 1903 Wild Goose Railroad was reorganized as Nome Arctic Railway and on April 27, 1906 it was Lot# 5614 , bought out by The Seward Peninsula Railway. On November 18, 1921, 1856 Scioto and the state of Alaska took over the railway line but operations soon Hocking Valley ceased. The railroad opened again 1953 as The Curly Q Line. It rain Rail Road Stock as a tourist operation between Nome and Salmon Lake until 1955 #662 $1000 7% when part of it was turned into a street. Ken Prag Collection. Est. first mortgage $200-400 HWAC# 83646 bond signed by President Spencer. Lot# 5620 , 1897 Sierra Railway Co of California In 1849 The Scioto Bond #1285 40 year first mortgage sinking fund 6% and Hocking Valley gold bond signed by President illegible. Nice train and Railroad, which cattle vignette. Uncancelled, all coupons intact. Prag eventually was Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84159 absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is chartered in Ohio to build a railroad from Portsmouth through Piketon and Chillicothe to Lancaster. Nice vignettes of 2 men, train near a river, family shearing sheep and 2 men picking corn. Red underprint. Prag Collection. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 83265 Lot# 5621 , c1880’s Silver City, Deming and Pacific Railroad Stock Lot# 5615 , 1915 Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway Stock, Rare unissued #254. Prag Collection. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84158 #3 I/C #3 R Calkins 1 share 1915 signed by President Illegible. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84162 Lot# 5622 , 1904 Silverton Railway Stock I/C #6 Charles Graham 996 Lot# 5616 , 1912 Seattle, Port shares 1904 signed by President Otto Angeles and Lake Crescent Railway Mears. Train exiting tunnel vignette. “The Silverton Railroad, now defunct, Stock, #3 Choice #3 JE Corlett 1 was an American 3 ft (914 mm) share 1912 signed by President narrow gauge railroad constructed Earles. “The first passenger train between Silverton, Colorado and arrived on July 21, 1914 travelling mining districts near Red Mountain as far as Sequim. The last passenger Pass, Colorado. The Silverton Railroad train left in 1931 making it all the is remembered for the innovative way to Port Townsend. Today the solutions to difficult engineering problems presented by the steep, Seattle, Port Angeles & Lake Crescent mountainous terrain which were devised by the railroad’s chief Railway station serves as an info center.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection, Est. $240-400 HWAC# 84163 locating engineer, Charles Wingate Gibbs – the Chattanooga Loop, the depot in a wye at Red Mountain, and a covered turntable on the main Lot# 5617 , c1880’s Second St. track at Corkscrew Gulch – and for the unusual and expensive annual passes presented by the owner, Otto Mears.” from wikipedia. Left Cable Rail Road Stock Unissued #472, nice cable car vignette. Prag toning, right pin holes. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84157 Collection. Est. $80-150 HWAC# Lot# 5623 , 1906 Snohomish Valley Railway 84161 Bond Choice bond with all coupons attached. #2593 first mortgage 5% 30 year gold bond signed by President Cochran. Prag Collection. Lot# 5618 , 1897 Selah Valley Co Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84154 Bond #43 $400 6% 20 year mortgage gold bond signed by President Englehart. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84160 316 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5624 , 1905 Lot# 5630 , 1918 Spokane & Inland Snohomish Valley Empire Railroad Stock I/U #1283 Railway Stock Rare W Nash 100 shares 1918 signed by stock vs. the more President Elliot. Great vignette of a common bonds. I/U building, train, dynamo and 2 cars. #23 Phil Dieringer 50 “The Spokane and Inland Empire shares 1905 signed Railroad Company was an electrified by President Cochran. interurban railway operating in Prag Collection. Est. Spokane, Washington and vicinity, $200-350 HWAC# extending into northern and central 84156 Idaho. The system originated in several predecessor roads beginning c. 1890, incorporated in 1904, and ran under its own name to 1929. It merged into the Great Northern Railway and later, the Burlington Northern Railroad, which operated some roads into the 1980s. One of the earliest components of Spokane’s early interurban system was the Lot# 5625 , c1880’s Spokane and Montrose Street Railway, a narrow-gauge system with South Dakota the distinction of being the first motorized street railway in Spokane. Western Railway Its owner, in 1893, was Francis H. Cook (1851–1920). Cook, financially Stock Unissued, nice embarrassed by the Panic of 1893, sold the line to a group of Spokane train vignette. Prag businessmen headed by Jay P. Graves (1859–1948) in 1902. (Prior Collection. Est. $60- to this Graves and his partners had bought Cook’s foreclosed land 100 HWAC# 84148 holdings in the Spokane area.)” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84149 Lot# 5631 , 1937 Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Specimen Trust Cert Unissued $1000 #00000 specimen with all coupons. Smoking train vignette. “The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S) (reporting mark SPS) was a United States- Lot# 5626 , c1870’s Southern based railroad incorporated in 1905. It was a joint Bay Railroad and Land Co Stock venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Unissued, 2 train vignettes. Prag Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along Collection. Est. $70-100 HWAC# the north bank of the Columbia River. Remnants of 84151 the line are currently operated by BNSF Railway and the Portland and Western Railroad.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84147 Lot# 5627 , Southern California Railroad Lot# 5632 , 1908 Spokane, Stocks With Nice Vignettes (2) 2 unissued Portland and Seattle Railway stock with interesting vignettes. U/C Southern Stock Issued/void with overstamped California Railway #642 signed by President company name. #17 M Levy 200000 c. 1800’s with locomotive vignette. #3234 shares 1908 signed by President California Southern Railroad c. 1800’s signed Clarke. Punched, trimmed left edge. by President Mauch? surveyor vignette. Prag Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83217 HWAC# 84146 Lot# 5628 , 1905 Southern Pacific Specimen Lot# 5633 , 1917 Spokane, Valley & Bond Choice punched specimen with all coupons. Northern Railway Company Stock Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84152 I/U #250 Paul Kouba 100 shares 1917 signed by President illegible. Mountain and industrial vignette. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84145 Lot# 5634 , 1914 Spokane, Wallace Lot# 5629 , 1919 Southern Pacific & Interstate Railway Stock I/U #27 Stock, Uncancelled Rare uncancelled Wm Hall 887 shares signed by VP #83525 Frederick ? 10 shares 1919 illegible. Crisp and uncreased, very signed by President illegible. Creases nice. Prag Collection. Est. $120-200 and pin hole. Prag Collection. Est. HWAC# 84144 $300-500 HWAC# 84150 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 317

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5635 , St Paul and Des Moines & Lot# 5640 , 1912 Steel Railway Tie St Paul & Stone City Railroad Co stock and Appliance Stock I/U #166 AS Nine unissued stock certificates two for St. Shoningen 10 shares 1912 signed Paul and Des Moines Railroad Company by President Shone. Orange tie and & seven for Saint Paul and Stone City Rail 2 miners vignette. Orange seal. Road Company . 1) Number 674 with Impressive. Prag Collection. Est. railroad engine vignette. 2) Number 673 $150-250 HWAC# 84141 with railroad engine vignette. Printed: Franklin-Lee Bank Note Company. 3) Number 87 with train vignette. 4) Number 79 with railroad engine vignette. Printed: Snyder Black & Sturn 5) Number 81 with train vignette. Printed: Lot# 5641 , 1911 Stockton Terminal and Eastern Snyder Black & Sturn 6) Number 78 with train vignette. Printed: Railroad Stock #34 $100 6% 30 year collateral gold bond signed by President Gardner. “Established in Snyder Black & Sturn . 7) Number 85 with train vignette. Printed: 1908, the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad Snyder Black & Sturn . Printed: Franklin-Lee Bank Note Company. 8) (reporting mark STE) provides service to several Number 75. 8) Number 75 with train vignette. Printed: Snyder Black & Sturn . Ken Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 78746 companies around the Stockton area, in San Joaquin County, California. It is a former Southern Pacific Lot# 5636 , St. Louis-San Francisco Transportation Company line.” fromwikipedia. Prag Railway Bonds and Stocks, 6 Different, Collection. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 84140 12 Total Sheet of Dutch coupons Bonds- 2 green Dutch $1000 1928 & 1929, ruby Lot# 5642 , Summit County Railroad $100 1948, garnet $1000 1948 and Stock and Bond Both unissued. Stock #498 unissued $1000, brown unissued $5000. c. 1870’s. Bond #760 $500 c. 1873. “The Scrip certs- purple 1947, olive 1948. Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City, troubled Stocks-black 1937, brown 1929, green 1958, orange 1962. Prag Collection. Est. by a lack of readily available fuel, sought to $150-300 HWAC# 83210 develop a bank of low-grade coal at Coalville. In September 1869 Mormon businessmen Lot# 5637 , 1909 Stamford and incorporated the Coalville & Echo Railroad Northwestern Railway Stock I/C to connect Coalville with the Union Pacific #1 overwritten to #2 R Colbert 1 main line at Echo. They graded the line, but share 1909 signed by President were unable to complete construction. On Brice. “A single-track line, extending November 27, 1871, Joseph A. Young and other Mormon leaders northwesterly from Stamford to Spur, formed the Summit County Railroad to take over the grade and franchise of the C&E. They undertook construction of the line as a Tex., 82.859 miles. The property has been operated under lease by narrow gauge from Echo in 1872 and began service to Coalville (6 the Wichita Valley Railway since miles) on July 1, 1873.’ from utahrails.net. Prag Collection. Est. $120- September 15, 1909, when the first 200 HWAC# 84139 section of its road was placed in Lot# 5643 , 1895 operation. However, the accounts of the Stamford and Northwestern Sumpter Valley do not record any income statement prior to February 16, 1910.” from Railway Stock wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84143 Rare. I/C #69 David Lot# 5638 , 1911 Standard Railway Eccles 40 shares Supply & Manufacturing Stock I/U 1895 signed by #108 LR Parkhurst 5 shares 1911 President Eccles. signed by President Lance. Prag Train and mountain Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# vignette. “The railway 84142 was incorporated in 1890 by David Eccles. The 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway’s purpose was to haul logs to Lot# 5639 , 1875 State Line and the Oregon Lumber Company sawmill in South Baker City. The sawmill Sullivan Rail Road Stock I/C #227 and railroad remained separate corporations of the same owners for Samuel Thorndike 100 shares 1875 the life of the railroad. The builders of the railway also owned the signed by President illegible.”The Grande Ronde Lumber Company in Perry, Oregon, and the railway State Line and Sullivan was was financed by Mormons in Utah.[6] The line was built over terrain incorporated on December 2, 1874, originally considered as part of a railway from Denver, Colorado to the under the general laws of the State Pacific coast; but the Union Pacific Railroad opted for a different route of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of to avoid bypassing growing communities which might provide an acquiring the franchises, rights, and attractive opportunity for competition by the rapidly growing Oregon property of the Sullivan and Erie Railroad and Navigation Company” from wikipedia. Creases. Prag Coal and Railroad Company, whose property had been sold under Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84138 foreclosure proceedings on November 14, 1874. That company had been incorporated by a special act of the State of Pennsylvania approved March 23, 1865.” from wikpedia. Prag Collection Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 83253 318 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5644 , 1894 Sutro Railroad Lot# 5647 , Tanana Articles of Incorporation: Framed Valley Railroad and Hung in Sutro’s Office Large, Company Three beautifully framed piece with the seal of The Great State of California and one-half shares Has the original frame (26” x 32.5”) that hung in Sutro’s Office. The of capital stock in Sutro Baths, a remarkable wood-and-glass Victorian confection at the Tanana Valley the western edge of the continent (and the city), aptly named Land’s Railroad Company for End. Adolph Sutro, mining magnate and mayor, built the baths as an Frances E. Maitland attraction for the growing city, residents and visitors alike. Seven pools on December 2, filled with seawater heated to different temperatures. But the site was 1908. Transferred a long way from where people lived back then. To get there, Sutro built on January 12, his own streetcar line. This was a common practice of land developers 1909. Maitland was across America in that era. The flip side was also true: private streetcar born in Monifieth, companies often built amusement parks and other attractions at Ans, Scotland in 1875 and time of death unknown (Ancestry). The the ends of their lines to attract weekend riders. The Sutro Railroad Tanana Valley Railroad (TVRR) was a 45 mile railroad that operated Company didn’t last long, soon becoming part of San Francisco’s near- in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917 then became monopoly private transit company, known in different incarnations as part of the Alaska Railroad.It rain from Fairbanks to Chatanika from Market Street Railway Company and United Railroads. They operated 1904/5 - 1917. The company was liquidated after going bankrupt Sutro’s streetcar line as their 2-Clement line. Shortly after the publicly- in 1917. The U.S. government purchased the railroad in June 1917. owned Municipal Railway opened its B-Geary line in 1912, it was This line became the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It continued to run until extended to Ocean Beach, but not by outer Geary (because the 2-line its decommissioning in 1930. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-300 was already there), but by jogging down to Cabrillo Street. Loyal Muni HWAC# 83640 riders could walk up to the Cliff House and Sutro Baths from there. [streetcar.org] This is the certification that allowed Sutro to build his railroad. Est. $1500-2500 HWAC# 23400 Lot# 5648 , Tanana Valley Lot# 5645 , 1873 - 1896 Sutro Railroad Company Ten shares of Railroad Letters Fabulous lot: Charles Tanana Valley Railroad Company Crocker signature, Sutro Railroad preferred stock trust certificate, and Sutro Baths letterheads, and an number 88 for H. B. Rettie, dated agreement between the railroad and January 20. 1908. Transferred on baths, etc. Lot of three. 1) 1893 small January 3, 1910. Began as the Tanana letterhead from the Southern Pacific Mines Railway. Falcon Joslin and Railroad. From Charles Crocker. He Martin Harrais, heard of the gold tells Mr.W. C. Little that Sutro has no strikes in the Chena and Chatanika differences with other railroads. Charles River basins. People working in the mines needed transportation to Crocker was the American railroad move people and supplies to the mine. In 1903, Joslin and Harrais executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed started plans for the possible building of a railroad from the Tanana the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and River to Fairbanks and the gold fields. They raised money for the took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Also the railroad from British investors. Falcon Joslin signed the stock as a founder of what would become Crocker Bank. Includes his signature. Voting Trustee. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $75-150 HWAC# 83641 2) 1895 Sutro Railroad letterhead. From Van Frank to Sutro. Two small cars are arriving with Westinghouse air brakes. Currently 20 men are Lot# 5649 , 1893-1895 Texas Central Railroad working on the power house site, 4 men on the tunnel and 13 men Stocks (2) 2 different I/C. Green #91 Edgar work at the car house. 3) Letterheads for “Sutro Baths / Sutro Heights Van Winkler 40 shares 1893. Olive #353 Moran / Sutro Pleasure Grounds.” 1896 report on water with regards to the Bros 25 shares 1895. “ The Texas Central Sutro Railroad and Sutro Baths to be presented to the next Board of Railway Company was chartered on May 30, Directors meeting. One quick quote, “...we think it would only equitable 1879, to serve as a feeder line to the Houston that the Sutro Baths furnish water to the Sutro Railroad Company and Texas Central Railway Company. Although for Condensation purposes free...” Interesting 5 page report by A. originally chartered to run from Ross Station, Harrison. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 58258 near Waco, in McLennan County to the center of Eastland County, the Texas Central charter Lot# 5646 , 1882 Syracuse, Phoenix was subsequently amended to authorize the and Oswego Railway Bond Unlisted company to extend to the state line in Sherman County with the #28 $500 signed by President illegible. ultimate destination as the state of Colorado, and also to build a line Town of Schroeppel, NY. “The Syracuse, from near Ennis to Paris. The original capital stock was $130,000 and Phoenix and Oswego Railroad was the principal office was at Ross Station.” from tshaonline.org. Prag chartered on November 29, 1871, and Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84137 had a route from Woodard, located north of Syracuse, New York, to Fulton, Lot# 5650 , 1917 Texas Electric Railway Bond New York, a distance of 17.11 miles #1508 $1000 6% covertible gold debenture signed (27.54 km).[1] They merged with the by VP illegible. “The Texas Electric Railway is a Syracuse Northwestern Railroad on June historic interurban railroad that operated from 10, 1875, and incorporated as Syracuse, Phoenix and Oswego Railway Dallas, Texas, to Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. It on February 16, 1885. In 1889, the railroad line merged with Rome, began operation in 1908 and through the merger of Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad until 1913, when the company several companies became the largest interurban became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad which railway operator in the South before its demise in was renamed to New York Central Railroad in 1914. from wikipedia. 1948.” from wikipedia. Prag Collection. Est. $150- com. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84258 200 HWAC# 84136 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 319

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5651 , 1927-1929 Texas Lot# 5654 Electric Railway Stocks (2) 2 I/U. , Tonopah and #4261 JC Kelley 3 shares 1927 Goldfield Railroad signed by President Deall, holes Stock, Very Rare and heavy toning. #149 Charles Group All unissued. Ernst 100 shares 1929 signed by VP #118 fractional illegible, staple holes and torn right scrip for common side. Sold as is. Prag Collection. Est. stock. Stocks-with $100-200 HWAC# 84135 nice train and depot workers vignette- black, olive, brown, slate, green, orange. “Predecessors of the Tonopah and Goldfield (T&G) Railroad, including the Tonopah Railroad, began operations in 1903. The decade of the 1900s was a period of Lot# 5652 , 1902 Texas Shortline frenzied railroad-building in southwestern Nevada, with rich silver ore Railway Bond #43 first mortgage discovered at Tonopah in 1900 and gold-bearing quartz at Goldfield in 1902. In addition, silver. The first predecessor of the Tonopah and 20 year 5% gold coupon bond signed Goldfield Railroad, the Tonopah Railroad (built 1903-1904), was a by President Strong. Gold seal with 60-mile-long narrow gauge line from what was then called Sodaville 5 point star. “The Texas Short Line Junction (9 miles south of Mina) to Tonopah. This spur line merged Railway was chartered in 1901 to with the Goldfield Railroad in November 1905 to create the Tonopah build from Grand Saline, TX north and Goldfield Railroad, and the merged rail line would continue to to a connection with the Missouri- do business under this corporate name until ceasing operations in Kansas-Texas Railroad at Hoyt, near present-day Alba, TX. The line 1947. Investment money poured into the new gold fields, with the opened in September, 1902, also merged Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad claiming to have $2,150,000 serving some coal mines near Alba in equity capital. The T&G began expanding its trackage in 1905 to cover the 31 miles from Tonopah south to Goldfield, and the nine miles and a salt mine at Grand Saline. In north from Sodaville Junction through Sodaville to Mina. The merged 1910, the TSL built another mile of railroad also relaid its existing tracks to become a standard gauge track within Grand Saline to connect road. With the gold and silver mines in full production, the Tonopah to the Texas & Pacific line that ran and Goldfield soon had competition from the Las Vegas and Tonopah between Dallas and Shreveport, LA. Railroad and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad.[2] In addition, the In 1929, the T&P purchased Texas Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad built some right-of-way and leased out its Short Line outright, but continued to operate it as a separate entity. A year later, after the discovery of trackage rights to operating railroads. The Tonopah and Goldfield held oil in Van Zandt county to the south, the TSL built another 10 miles a brief strategic advantage over its competitors: its northern railhead to Van, located in the middle of the oil field. As freight begin to taper at Mina was a junction point with the Nevada and California Railroad (N&C), an affiliate line of one of the largest railroads in the West, the off, TSL found itself in a deficit. The line between Grand Saline and Southern Pacific. This made it possible for passengers from the East or Alba was abandoned in 1959; the remainder of the Texas Short Line West Coasts to travel to the northern end of the Nevada and California between Grand Saline and Van was abandoned three years later.” from abandondedrails.com. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84134 spur line by fast Pullman service; the final leg of the journey, from the Southern Pacific main line at Hazen, Nevada over the N&C and T&G to Goldfield, was however very slow.” from wikipedia.com. Prag Lot# 5653 , 1911 Tide Water and Collection. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 84131 Southern Railroad Stock I/U #696 I Hearn 200 shares 1911 signed by Lot# 5655 , Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad President Brueck. “The Tidewater Co. Gold Bond Cancelled Five Hundred Gold Southern Railway was a short line Bond 4 Cent General Mortgage Gold Bond with railroad in Central California in the coupons. Principal Due 1989. Certificate No. United States. For most of its history, A14118. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway it was a subsidiary of the Western was one of the largest railroads in the U.S. Its’ Pacific Railroad”. from wikipedia. charter issued February, 1859, extended to the Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and into Pueblo, HWAC# 84132 Colorado in 1876. At different times it included tugboats, airline service, bus line and ferry boats. It combined with another railroad in 1996 to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. The railroad officially ceased operations on December 31, 1996, after the merger with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway was completed. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 75862 320 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5656 , Transalaska-Siberian Lot# 5662 , 1890 Union Pacific, Railway Company Obligation coupons Lincoln & Colorado Railway for the building of the Transalaska- Stock Very rare. I/U #13 HP Dillon Siberian Railway Company, No 01,893. It 10 shares 1890 signed by VP is a provisory certificate to Bearer of one Lane. Creases, small ink spot. Prag debenture-bond of $100 gold, Interest Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# at 5%, reimbursable in 30 years from 84124 1920, dated March 10, 1909. The Trans- Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with east Russia. Lot# 5663 , 1920 United Railways It is the longest railway in the world Co Stock I/C #104 Robert Croslie 1 measuring 5,772 miles. It also connects to Mongolia, China and North share 1920 signed by VP Turner. Prag Korea. It was built between 1891 and 1916 by government officials Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# appointed by Tsar Alexander III and his son, Tsar Nicholas II. Printed: 84121 Imprimerie Chaix. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 83637 Lot# 5657 , 1914 Truss Rail Joint Stock I/U #115 WL Dickey 200 Lot# 5664 , 1906 United Railways shares 1914 signed by President Co Stock I/C #10 J Evans 2071 shares Dickey. creases .5” tear. Prag 1906 signed by President Evans. Collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# Streetcar vignette. Prag Collection. 84128 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84122 Lot# 5658 , 1906 Tucson Rapid Transit Bond Unissued #232 $1000 first mortgage 6% sinking Lot# 5665 , 1909 United Smelters, fund 22 year gold bond. Prag Collection. Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 84129 Railway and Copper Company Certificate I/U #4472 Filer and Sons 100 shares 1909 signed by President McCabe. Operated a 16 mile automatic Tramway from the Ferris Haggerty Copper mine to the smelting/reduction works at Encampment. Locomotive and Lot# 5659 , 1909 Union Pacific and smelter vignettes. Prag Collection Western Colorado Railway Stock Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84120 I/U #32 Gordon Buck 10 shares 1909 Lot# 5666 , Unlisted and Unissued Railroad signed by VP Mink? Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84125 Stocks (2) 2 unlisted. #194 Lindley Ave, Railway,#81 Linglestown & Blue Mountain Street Railway. Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 84952 Lot# 5660 , Union Pacific Railroad Specimen Stock Rare specimen #0000. Prag Collection. Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 84126 Lot# 5667 , Utah Rapid Transit Bonds, 2 Different Green #423 $100 first and refunding mortgage 20 year gold bond 1920 signed by President Bigelow. Mauve #1138 $1000 first Lot# 5661 , Union Pacific Railroad and refunding mortgage 20 year gold bond 1920 signed by President Stock, 3 Different I/C #171227 Bigelow. Street car vignettes. Prag Hannah Thompson 73 shares 1916. Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# #287173 Weston & Co 100 shares 84117 1969. #261482 Michael Reiger 100 shares 1960. Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84123 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 321

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5668 , 1926 Utah Idaho Central Bond Lot# 5670 Rare. Issued/paid #18 $10000 first mortgage 25 , 1874 Utah year 6% gold bond. Signed by President illegible. Western “The Utah-Idaho Central Railroad is commonly Railway associated with that line of interurban electric Bond with railway running northerly from Ogden, Utah, to Mormon Preston, Idaho, a distance of 94.7 miles. However, Sigs I/U #70 at one time the UIC operated city systems in $1000 7% Ogden and Logan, plus interurban branch lines to gold bond. Huntsville, Plain City, Quinney and North Ogden to Signed by Hot Springs and Brigham.” from utahrails.net. Prag several Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84118 notable Mormons Lot# 5669 , 1920 Utah Idaho Central Railroad including Bond Unissued. #1513 first and refunding mortgage “Heber 20 year gold bond 1920. Prag Collection. Est. $200- Chase 300 HWAC# 84116 Kimball (June 14, 1801 – June 22, 1868) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints (LDS Church) for more than two decades, from 1847 until his death. John Willard Young (October 1, 1844 – February 12, 1924) was a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is one of the few individuals to have been an apostle of the LDS Church and a member of the First Presidency without ever having been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.” from wikipedia. Also William Lilly. Created in June of 1874, took over the rights and privileges of the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad in September of 1874. Among the material taken over was the one engine delivered to Salt Lake for the SLSV&P, being that road’s #2 mogul, the ‘Kate Connor.’ Received RETURN POLICY in July 1873, it was never operated by the SLSV&P, and spent most of its time, until taken over by the U.W., in a shed built to house it. Upon the Utah Western obtaining possession of the engine, in September 1874, John W. Young, the promoter of the Utah Western, paid a fellow All items are guaranteed to be authentic by the name of Mr. Holden the sum of $50.00 to repaint the engine unless otherwise noted. If authenticity to U.W. No. 1, the ‘Oquirrh.’ The Utah Western was completed to a is challenged, please call our office for point not far beyond Tooele in late 1877, and that was as far as it went. On shaky financial ground for some time, it passed from John assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may W.’s control in 1878 and was sold at foreclosure in 1880. In 1881, only return any piece that was significantly the property was bought by the Utah & Nevada Railway, which had inaccurately described by calling our been created for that purpose at the beginning of 1881. This was a Union Pacific ‘front,’ and as soon as the U.P. had 100% of the Utah & office within 10 days of receipt of item(s) Nevada stock, said stock paid a 15% cash dividend, and paid regularly and notifying us of the error and reason thereafter! The Utah & Nevada became part of the Oregon Short Line for return. We do not refund postage or & Utah Northern in 1889, and escaped being widened to standard gauge to become, by many years, the last narrow gauge operation insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE of the Union Pacific in Utah, and the last narrow gauge to run out of A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR Salt Lake City, the last run (regular run, that is) being November 15, ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are 1902. The engine, as well as one of a similar appearance, bought in 1875 from Brooks as well, were both dropped from equipment in returned must be returned in the exact, 1891 and probably scrapped at that time, although the tender of the unaltered condition. When we receive ‘Oquirrh’ was still in use as a water car in 1899. The Utah Western’s your bids we will assume you have read the third locomotive, a Baldwin 4-4-0 named ‘Jonathan’ and bought in 1880, fared somewhat better. In 1892, it was sold to the Sumpter description in the catalog, viewed the image Valley Railway, up in Oregon, and operated on that road for about of the item, have contacted us regarding any 20 years. It appears to have been sold in 1912 to the Eureka-Nevada questions you may have on any lot and/or Railway (formerly the Eureka & Palisade), where it operated for a time before being scrapped. The concept represented by the Utah Western/ have previewed the lot in person. Utah & Nevada lends itself to modeling in a neat way. It was short, relatively speaking, and its equipment never amounted to more than four locomotives and a pretty basic assortment of cars. Before the line became a ‘resort bus line,’ there were a few box cars and perhaps 20 or so flat and/or coal cars, with a half-dozen each of coaches & combines and open air excursion cars. Just before Saltair opened, in 1893, the excursion cars numbered about 40. And the business out to Garfield resort was the road’s primary revenue; that, and salt.” from utahrails. net. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84115 322 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5671 , 1889 Utah Western Lot# 5676 , 1874 Virginia and Railway Stock with Mormon Sigs Truckee Rail Road Bond Issued/ I/U #9 John W Young 10 shares redeemed #1004 Thomas Bell $1000 1889. Signed by notable Mormons 10% bond. Signed by President President John W Young and Daniel illegible. Bond is glued to brown Harrington-”Daniel received his backing paper with glued coupons. education in American Fork, then at Mining, train and Native American Brigham Young Academy in Provo. vignette. Some toning from glue. Prag He then went to Sevier County where Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# he was superintendent of schools. 84113 He worked as a bookkeeper for John W. Young who was building a railroad to Park City. He went to Ann Arbor, Mich. and studied to be a Lot# 5677 , c1900’s Virginia and Truckee lawyer. He then came back to Salt Lake & practiced law until he was Rail Road Stock Very rare. Unissued #248 elected city judge in 1928. He held this position until 1936.” from brown. Train, miner and mountain vignette. A findagrave.com. Mild center crease, 2 pin holes. Really nice condition. few creases otherwise very clean. Unissued Extra rare and clean. Prag Collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 84114 #496, train and river vignette. 2 pin holes. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84111 Lot# 5672 , Valdez, Marshall Pass & No Railroad Co Valdez, Marshall Pass & Northern Railroad Company Series A, First Mortgage 30-year 5% Gold Bond $1,000 with coupons. Principal due July 1, 1935, number 134. Printed: H. C. Smith & Company. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 Lot# 5678 , 1870 Virginia and HWAC# 83638 Truckee Rail Road Stock with Wm Sharon Sig I/U #35 issued to Wm Sharon 500 shares 1870. Signed by President Wm Sharon(He was elected as a Republican to the United States Lot# 5673 , Valdez-Yukon Railway Senate for Nevada and served from Company Ten shares of Valdez- March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. Yukon Railroad Company stock, He served as the chairman of the number 283, for John R. Miller, dated Committee on Mines and Mining in December 18, 1907. Valdez-Yukon the 45th United States Congress) from wikipedia and AJ Ralston for Railroad was an early 20th century Wm Sharon on rear. 25c revenue and Nevada stamps. Train, miners railway in Alaska. Company started in and mountain vignette. Light left toning. 6 pin holes. Prag Collection. 1905 to build a railroad from Valdez Est. $1500-2500 HWAC# 84112 to Eagle City to stop at Keystone Canyon. Thought to be the easiest Lot# 5679 , 1895 Washington and Columbia route into the interior of Alaska. The River Railway Bond Unissued/cancelled #0000 length of the road was estimated at 450 miles. Ken Prag Collection. $1000 first mortgage bond. All coupons intact. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 83639 Nice vignettes. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84110 Lot# 5674 , Valez-Yukon Railroad Company Two hundred fifty capital shares of Valdez-Yukon Railroad Company, number 55 assigned to John R. Miller, dated November 6, 1905. The Valez-Yukon Railroad Company was in the state of Alaska in the early 20th century prior to the Klondike Gold Lot# 5680 , 1912 Washington Rush. The Valdez-Yukon Railroad Company was organized in 1905 to build a railroad from Valdez Northern Railroad Etc Bond #304 to Eagle City. It was to be used to profit from the Washington Northern Railroad, Oregon Washington Timer Co, Blazier copper and gold districts of the Copper, Chitina, Timber Co $1000 first and general and Tanana Rivers. The line only went to Keystone Canyon. Printed by: W. Reid Gould. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- lien 6% gold note signed by President 300 HWAC# 83645 Blazier. Also includes propectus. Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# Lot# 5675 , Very rare, possibly 84109 unique, bond for the Nevada Southern Railway $1,000 gold Lot# 5681 , 1890 West End Street Railroad Bond #94 first mortgage bond dated 1880. Not endorsed, although two different color pencil 6% gold bond signed by President inscriptions at the bottom are dated April and January 1881. From the illegible. Street cars vignette. Prag text on the bond, the railroad line was to extend from Ledlie in Lander County to Cloverdale in Nye County, Nevada. This is confirmed by Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Thompson & West, 1881. They also add that it would pass through the 84108 mining region of Grantsville and that it was never completed. Issued at the rate of $12,000 per mile. Ornate border and text. Three vignettes: two mining and one of a locomotive. Printed by the American Bank Note Company. Condition: creases and horizontal and vertical folds. 17.75” x 11.5”. Using the Reno Evening Gazette, the history of this VERY short lived railroad can be followed from March 6, 1880 (surveying) to November 18, 1881 (sheriff selling road). Interesting reading. Est. $150-400 HWAC# 99354 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 323

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Railroadiana Lot# 5682 , 1870 Lot# 5688 , Wichita Railroad Stock and Bond Western Maryland I/U Wichita & Santa Fe Shortline RR #3004 H Rail Road Bond Hoover 2 shares signed by President Abbott. Issued/paid #123 Unissued Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railway $1000 signed by 5% gold bond, right tattered edges and corner President Booke. chips. tattered top. Prag Collection. Est. $100- Train vignette. 150 HWAC# 84101 “The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It was primarily a coal hauling and freight railroad, with a small passenger train operation. The original main line began with the chartering of the Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Railroad in 1852, with the intent of building a rail line from Baltimore west to Washington County, Maryland. The Maryland General Assembly changed the name of the company to the Western Maryland Rail Road Company in 1853, and construction began from Owings Mills in 1857” from wikipedia .Edges have creases. Prag Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 83261 Lot# 5683 , ra Western Oklahoma Railroad Stock I/U #15 Francis Gowen 4 shares 19 00 signed by President Gowen. 2x 5c doc stamps. Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84107 Lot# 5689 , 1904 Wyoming and North Western Railway Stock I/C #8 J Redfield 1 share 1904 signed by President illegible. Left toning, right stain, small tears. 5” upper tear. 2 beehive vignettes. .5” upper tear. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 84100 Lot# 5684 , 1925 Western Pacific Railroad Stock, 2 Different Both issued uncancelled to St Luke’s Childrens Hospital 1925. Black #3735 2 Lot# 5690 , Yosemite Short Line shares, purple #37202 1925 2 shares. Wrinkles, Railway Co Stock A very rare stock pinholes and toning. Prag Collection. Est. $200- we have never seen before. I/U #228 400 HWAC# 84106 Sierra Railway Co Of California 925 shares 1907 signed by president Solinsky. “The Yosemite Short Line Railway was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway constructed in Lot# 5685 , 1945-1970 Western the Yosemite region of California. The Pacific Railroad Stocks, 4 plan was to construct a railway 60 miles long, serving logging interests and tourists visiting the Yosemite Different All I/C. Blue 1970, brown National Park. Construction commenced in 1905 but construction 1948, orange 1970, mauve 1945. was abandoned due to the financial crisis caused by the 1906 San Locomotive vignette. Prag Collection. Francisco earthquake, with only 8.5 miles (14 km) constructed. The Est. $100-150 HWAC# 84105 railway was abandoned by 1917. Locomotive power was provided by two Porter 0-4-0T steam locomotives.” from wikipedia. Logo vignette. Nice condition and worthy of your collection. Prag Collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 83279 Lot# 5686 , 1915? Western Pacific Railway Bond Rare. Brown #115 $1000 first mortgage 5% Lot# 5691 , Yosemite Short Line Railway 30 year bond. Most coupons intact. Locomotive Company Bond #5022 $100 40 year first mortgage and tender vignette. 3 blue stamps on front. Prag sinking fund 4.5% gold bond. All coupons intact. Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 84103 Locomotive and tender vignette. Signed by President Solinsky. Nice condition. Prag Collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83278 Lot# 5687 , 1906 Western Pacific Railway Stock, Specimen Aqua #000 specimen. Inc 1903. Left paper clip impression. Prag Impression. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84102 324 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5692 , 1907 Lot# 5695 , Allentown Yosemite Valley Passenger Railway Railroad Stock, #4 I/U Company Thirty shares #4 Harry Teris 5 shares of cancelled Allentown 1907 signed by VP Passenger Railway Company illegible. “The Yosemite stock number 7, owned by Valley Railroad (YVRR) Robert Yost with revenue was a short-line stamp dated July 1, 1869. railroad operating The Lehigh Valley Railroad from 1907 to 1945 in opened its original line the state of California, mostly following the Merced River from Merced between Allentown and to Yosemite National Park, carrying a mixture of passenger and freight Easton, Pennsylvania in traffic. Contrary to the name of the railroad, rail service did not extend 1855. Ken Prag Collection. to Yosemite Valley itself, but rather ended at the park boundary as Est. $200-400 HWAC# 75866 the construction of railroads is prohibited in the National Parks. Passengers would disembark at the park boundary in El Portal, CA and take a stage coach, and starting in 1913 a motor coach, to Yosemite Lot# 5696 , Alton & Upper Alton Valley itself. With closure of the Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Company Horse Railway & Carrying Co One in 1942 and the sale of the Yosemite Portland Cement Company to the share of Alton & Upper Alton Horse Henry J. Kaiser Company and subsequent suspension of all operations Railway & Carrying Company, No. in 1944 led to a loss of most of the freight track on the railroad. This 18 with revenue stamp. Signed by in addition to the increased competition for passengers from use Cyrus Edwards, President. Stock for along the Yosemite All-Year Highway (now designated as California J. Chaney, Esq. Cyrus Edwards was State Route 140), both commercial and private, and the substantial born in Illinois, on Jun 17, 1793 to decrease of recreational passenger traffic because of World War II Benjamin Edwards and Margaret led to the downfall of the railroad. The last regularly scheduled train Beall. Cyrus Edwards married Nancy ran on August 24, 1945. The railroad was incorporated on December Harriet Reed and they had 13 children. He died on Aug 1877 in Upper 18, 1902, by John S. Drum, William B. Bosley, Sydney M, Ehrman, Alton, Illinois. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 75867 Thomas Turner, and Joseph D. Smith in the city of San Francisco. It was a standard-gauge railway that stretched about 30 miles (48 km) Lot# 5697 , American Central from Merced to the mouth of Merced Canyon, connecting the towns Railway Cancelled twenty shares of Snelling, Merced Falls, Exchequer and Bagby, and a further 50 of American Central Railway stock miles (80 km) to El Portal, CA.[1] Aside from passengers and mining with revenue stamp, number 33 products, the railroad also carried lumber (from the Yosemite or dated June 21, 1869. The American Sugar Pine lumber companies) to Merced Falls, to be cut at a group of Central Railway was originally sawmills at a cataract on the Merced River. In 1926, the construction of Western Air Line Railroad. The Exchequer Dam flooded part of the railroad under Lake McClure, but American Central Railway was the railway was rerouted around the reservoir afterwards. In the mid- incorporated on February 21, 1859. 1940s floods and landslides damaged nearly 30 miles (48 km) of the By 1869 tracks were laid from Galva railway in Merced Canyon. Sections of the re-routed railbed were again to New Boston, Illinois. On June 1, 1899, the American Central Railway put under water when Exchequer Dam was expanded in the 1960s. was sold to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Ken Prag Several tunnels for the railroad still remain under Lake McClure, and Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 75868 are visible when the water level drops during drought periods. A few other tunnels in Merced Canyon are now used for road traffic. Among Lot# 5698 , Atlantic and Pacific many notable passengers, the YVRR carried two presidents: William Rail Road Company bond $1,000 Atlantic and Pacific Rail Road Howard Taft in October, 1909 and Franklin Roosevelt on July 15, Company Central Division Land Grant 1938.” from wikipedia. Upper right and right rear ink stain, lower right dogear. Prag Collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 83277 Bond, number 325, dated November 1, 1871, signed by Uriel Crocker, president and A. Hayes, treasurer, no coupons. Principal and interest payable in gold. Brown company Lot# 5693 , 1866 Yuba County Bond, Yuba seal and printing. Imprinted revenue Rail Road Co. $1000 20 year 8% bond. 2 paper RNW2. Two railroad vignettes. allegorical, cattle and train vignettes. Most The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S. railroad that owned or coupons intact. Most signatures illegible. Some operated two disjointed segments, one connecting St. Louis, Missouri light toning. Prag Collection. Est. $300-600 with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connecting Albuquerque, New HWAC# 83276 Mexico with Southern California. Incorporated by Congress in 1866 as a transcontinental railroad connecting Springfield, Missouri and Van Buren, Arkansas with California. Central portion never constructed. Two halves later became parts of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway systems. Printed: Henry Lot# 5694 , Michigan 1868 Flint and Seibert & Bros Ledger Building corn William & Spruce St N.Y. Ken Prag collection. Est. $125-225 HWAC# 83728 Pere Marquette Railway Bond I/C #1438 8% land grant bond signed by President Ward. Left Toning, right creases. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 85141 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 325

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5699 , Atlantic Mississippi & Ohio Rail Road Co Two shares of Atlantic Mississippi & Ohio Rail Road Company, number 424 issued to Estate of Jas A. Sydnor dated February 15, 1872. Train vignette on front and boats in harbor on back with train crossing a bridge. Imprinted revenue stamp RNU1. Green border. Listed in Lot# 5702 , Boston & Worchester Rail-Road Corporation Two Castenholz. Atlantic, cancelled stock from Boston & Worchester Rail-Road Corporation. 1) Mississippi and Ohio Twenty-five capital shares, number 9094 for Stephen Salisbury. 2) Ten Railroad formed in capital shares with revenue stamp, number 11051 for Samuel P. Oliver. 1870 in Virginia. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83133 Organized and led by former Confederate general William Mahone (Dec. 1,1826 - Oct 8, 1895). He was a civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate States Army general and Virginia politician. As a young man, Mahone was prominent in the building of Virginia’s roads and Lot# 5703 , Boston Hartford & railroads. As chief engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Erie RR $1000 bond, 1867 Boston he built log-foundations under the routes in the Great Dismal Swamp Hartford & Erie RR $1000 bond, in southeast tidewater Virginia that are still intact today. In the 1867.Impressive, showy bond with American Civil War, Mahone was pro-secession and served as a coupons and three RNs, a RN W2 and general in the southern Confederate States Army. He was best known two RNP5 signed by John Eldridge as for regaining the initiative at the late war siege of Petersburg, Virginia president. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 85762 while Southern troops were in shock after a huge mine/load of black powder kegs was exploded beneath them by tunnel digging former coal miner Union Army troops resulting in the Battle of the Crater Lot# 5704 , Buffalo & Erie Rail in July 1864. His counterattack turned the engagement into a Union Road Company Buffalo & Erie defeat. After the war, he returned to railroad building, merging three Rail Road Company of New York, lines to form the important Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad. He number 1452. Unissued, but signed. also led the Readjuster Party, a temporary state political party with Vignettes of train at station and eagle. a coalition of freemen blacks, Republicans and populist Democrats, Imprinted Revenue stamp RNT4. and was elected by the commonwealth General Assembly to the U.S. Senate in 1881. His willingness to caucus with Republicans cost him some support from the white electorate, as did his lenient treatment Listed in Castenholz. Printed: of African Americans freemen.The 428-mile line linked Norfolk National Bank Note Co New York. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-200 with Bristol, Virginia by way of Suffolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and HWAC# 83713 Salem. Promoted as a trade link to the west, and further expansion was envisioned with the goal of increasing Virginia’s Ohio Valley Lot# 5705 , Cherokee Railroad Co Bond $1000 and Mississippi Valley commerce. Heavily backed by investors from bond , strong vertical tear through top half. RN W2 England and Scotland. In receivership after the U.S. Financial Panic of at right. Castenholz p17. rare. Classic Georgia RR 1873. Mahone’s removed as trustee due to financial problems, but still bond. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 85770 led operations. In 1881sold at auction. Renamed Norfolk and Western Railway and expanded west into the coalfields and into Virginia. (Wikipedia) Listed in Castenholz. Printed: Continental Bank Note. Co., New York. Ken Prag collection. Est. $350-600 HWAC# 83712 Lot# 5700 , Blue Ridge Railroad Bond three RNs Blue Ridge RR bond, $1000, 1869, three RNs, RN W2, two RN P5 on reverse. Castenholz p13. Est. Lot# 5706 , Chicago South $100-200 HWAC# 85763 Western Railway Co stock Two stock certificates for Chicago & South Western Railway Company. Cancelled, unsigned and unissued Issued in State of Iowa with charter perpetual. Three vignettes, 1 railroad, 1 soldier with American flag and 1 country seal . The Chicago & South Western Railway renamed from Leavenworth and Des Moines Railway Company in 1867. operated a railroad from Missouri River in Platte Lot# 5701 , Boston & Worcester Rail-Road County, opposite the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, to the northern boundary of State of Missouri in the direction of Ottumwa in the Corp Two cancelled stocks of Boston & Worcester state of Iowa. 1) Fifty shares of Chicago & South Western Railway Rail-Road Corporation with vignette of buildings Company stock number 322. Brown border, Imprinted Revenue stamp with workers and horses. 1) One share of Boston RNU1.Printed: American Bank Note Co., New York. 2) Number 386 & Worcester Rail-Road Corporation stock number . Blue border. Imprinted Revenue stamp RNU1. Listed in Castenholz. 12560 issued to Lucy Mills on July 1, 1867. Revenue Ken Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83711 Stamped paper RNT4. 2) Four shares of Boston & Worcester Rail-Road Corporation stock number 12325 issued to Glen Danforth on June 28, 1867. Revenue Stamped paper RNT3. Listed in Castenholz. Ken Prag collection. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 83710 326 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5707 Lot# 5711 , Colorado , Chicago, Central Rail Road Danville/ Company Cancelled Vincennes one hundred shares Rail Road Co Colorado Central Cancelled$1,000 Rail Road Company Chicago, Danville number 3, issued and Vincennes to Jefferson County, Rail Road Colorado. Assigned Company 7% to Frank D. Rutnick. First Mortgage Grey border, raised Sinking Fund seal. Three vignettes, Bond, Principal two of trains and one and interest barrels. Imprinted payable in gold, revenue paper RNT4. Colorado Central Railroad was a rail road number 3940 with 74 coupons. Payable April 1, 1912. Issued in company that operated in Colorado and southeastern Wyoming in states of Illinois and Indiana, signed by M. D.Jinson, President and the late 19th century. Built during Colorado Gold Rush to ship gold Ama Terruery, Treasurer. Three vignettes: train, eagle and wagon from mountains to its Golden-Denver line to form a connection with being filled. Imprint Revenue stamp paper RNP5. Charter granted the transcontinental railroad. During the 1870s fighting between 1834. Chicago resident Joseph E. Young incorporated the company, locals led by W. A. H. Loveland (William Austin Hamilton Loveland approved by Illinois legislature. In 1869, the first mortgage was issued, a U.S. railroad entrepreneur and businessman. He was one of the on a term of 40 years; it provided $2.5 million in bonds at an interest founders of the Colorado Central Railroad and a principal figure in the rate of 7%. Construction began in 1869.By 1871 line completed from early history of Colorado) (Wikipedia) and outside investors of the Dolton (near Chicago) to Danville. Railroad consolidated with several Union Pacific Railroad led at times by Jay Gould. (Jason “Jay” Gould others in 1872, name stayed the same. The company began to run into was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has financial problems not paying the interest on its mortgages. To help, it been portrayed as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded attempted to issue more bonds in 1873. Foreclosure and sale occurred Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of in 187. The railroad and two others consolidated into the Chicago and his era. (Wikipedia). The railroad was chartered as the Colorado Eastern Illinois Railroad on August 28, 1877. (Wikipedia) Printed: and Clear Creek Railroad Company on February 9, 1865 by Loveland. Snyder, Black & Sturn, 92 Willow St. N.Y. Ken Prag collection. Est. On January 20, 1866, the name of the railroad was changed to the $200-400 HWAC# 83715 Colorado Central & Pacific Railroad. The following year, in June 1867, the company was reorganized with the Union Pacific investors in Lot# 5708 , Chicago, Rock Island control. (Revolvy) . Listed in Castenholz. Printer: Hooper, Lewis & Co., Boston. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 83706 and Pacific Rail Road Co Two cancelled receipts indicating payment of bonds for Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail Road Company. Lot# 5712 , Dayton & Michigan Imprinted Revenue paper RN-P5. 1) Number 178 dated November Rail Road Cancelled 724 preferred 14, 1866, revenue stamp on back. Noted paid $287.98 . 2) Number shares of Dayton & Michigan Railroad 122 dated November 20, 1866, signed on back. Rock Island and number 314 issued to Cuiti Hamilton La Salle Railroad Company incorporated in Illinois on February 27, & Dayton Railroad Company, 1847. Charter amended on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock dated June 21, 1873. signed by D. Island Railroad. Construction began October 1, 1851, in Chicago. First McLaven, President and T. B Short, train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet. Secretary. Imprinted Revenue stamp Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was RNU1. Vignette of train in station. reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Grey border. Raised company seal. Chicago with the Mississippi River. (Wikipedia). Printed: L. H. Biglow Railroad located entirely within Ohio, covers 140 miles with 14 miles & Company, Printers & Stationers, No 13 William St. New York. Ken of second main track. Railroad is reason for growth and development Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83709 of Wapakoneta. Dayton and Michigan Railroad began operation in 1858, giving the people of Wapakoneta first railway connection, first Lot# 5709 , Cincinnati, Lafayette & railroad in Auglaize County and first north-south line in western Ohio. Chicago RR RN Cincinnati, Lafayette & Provided a route from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, which allowed Chicago RR First Mortgage $1000 Bond, local farmers and industrialists to ship their products and goods 7%.1871, signed by G. Ricker as president throughout the country, promoting economic development. Within with RN W@. Castenbholz p22. tear along a short number of years employment and population more then top center fold. coupons. otherwise fine. doubled between 1860 - 1870. Later railroad know as Cincinnati, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85779 Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad. (K C’s Dayton and Michigan Railroad History) Listed in Castenholz Printed: Strobridge & Co. Lith, Ken Prag collection. Est. $30-60 HWAC# 83714 Lot# 5713 , Dubuque and Sioux City RR Lot# 5710 , Cleveland, Columbus $1000 Bond with RN overprints Dubuque & Cincinnati RR Bond nice RR and Sioux City RR Bond, $1000, 1867, Coupons, bond printed in red and black, very Signed by Morris Jesup as president. This is a attractive. Signed by Oscar Townsend. rare case where there is an RN overprint. Here #1146. RN P5 at bottom center, there are a RN P1 and RN V1 in green over a RN Castenholz p23. Est. $75-150 HWAC# W2. very showy piece. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85769 85764 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 327

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5714 , Flint & Pere Lot# 5718 , Harlem Extension Marquette Railway Co bond, RN Rail Road Company Cancelled Cancelled one thousand dollar 8% one share of Harlem Extension Rail Construction Loan bond for Flint & Road Company, number 154, signed Pere Marquette Railway Company April 24, 1872 by Henry Blood, vice of Michigan, number 115 , issued to president and S.P. Slater, treasurer. E. B. Ward of Detroit on January 2, Two train vignettes. Brown border, 1871, two railroad vignettes, raised black ink. Imprinted Revenue company seal, 9 coupons. Coupons paper TNT4. The Harlem Extension adhered to left by adhesive. The Railroad started operations in 1870 piece appears similar to Castenholz p 28, but the date here of Jan. 2 is and stopped service in 1873. Harlem Extension Railroad operated different from the Jan.31 date mentioned by Castenholz. We are unsure routes in New York and Vermont. Printed: R.C. Root Anthony & Co, 62 if this is a misprint by Castenholz, or a different piece. Chartered on Liberty Street, N.Y. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83705 January 22, 1857 to build east-west railway line with federal land grant from Flint, Michigan to Lake Michigan. Promoted by George Lot# 5719 , International M. Dewey (first president) and E.H. Hazelton. Service commenced Ralroad Co. Fifty cancelled shares January 20, 1862. Printed: Henry Seibert & Bros. Ledger Bldg. Ken of International Railway Company, Prag Collection. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 83716 number 40, signed J. Sanford Barnes, president. revenue stamp paper Lot# 5715 , Flint & Pere Marquette RNU1 orange and black border, Railway Company Cancelled $1,000 cowboy vignette, Incorporated in Land Grant Bond for Flint & Pere state of Texas. Marquette Railway Company issued raised company seal. Listed in September 4,1868, number 707, 8% Castenholz. interest Land Grant Bond with 15 Ken Prag collection. Est. $75-200 HWAC# 83717 coupons. Signed by C. R. Tucker and Oliver. Prescott. Trustees. Printed on Lot# 5720 , Lake Shore revenue stamped paper RNW2 and RNP5 and Michigan Southern includes two railroad vignettes. Defunct Railway Co. Cancelled $100 in railroad which had operated in Michigan the Capital Stock of the Lake between 1857 and 1899. Later merged with three other railway lines Shore & Michigan Southern to form the Pere Marquette Railway. Printed: Henry Seibert & Bros. Railway Company dated Ken Prag collection. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 83679 August 25, 1869, number 113. Three vignettes: railroad, Lot# 5716 , Flint and Pere steamship and large building. Marquette Railway Co. bond RN The Lake Shore and Michigan Cancelled $1000 land grant bond for Southern Railway Company, Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company at 10% interest without established in 1833 was a government tax, number 184 signed by W. C. Potter, secretary and W. major part of the New York B. Mar, president. Same as the three RN piece shown by Castenholz Central Railroad’s Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to on p27. Raised company seal. Two vignettes. One of railroad train and Chicago, Illinois, mainly along the south shore of Lake Erie and across one of eagle. Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company chartered on northern Indiana. Green border, green ink. Revenue stamped paper January 22, 1857 to construct east-west railway line where a federal RNT4. Printed: Continental Bank Note Co., New York. Ken Prag land grant was offered. Promoted by George M. Dewey and E.H. collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83722 Hazelton. Construction started in 1859, in 1860 Captain Eber Brock Ward, elected to the presidency, service began on January 20, 1862. Lot# 5721 , Leavenworth, A couple of folds in paper and small cut. Revenue stamped paper. Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Printed: Litho of Henry Seibert & Bros. Ken Prag collection. Not listed Co Three hundred shares of in Castenhotz. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83718 Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail Road Company, number 356 issued to Moses Gaylor dated June 27 1871. Signed by R. W. Wapson, treasurer. Grey boarder with revenue Lot# 5717 , Hannibal & Central stamped paper. Two vignettes Missouri Rail Road Co Cancelled of railroad. Countersigned by James H. Blake, director. Listed in First Mortgage $1,000 7% payable Castenholz. Printed: Henry Seibert & Bros. Ledger Bldg. Ken Prag in gold Hannibal Missouri Rail Collection. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 83707 Road Co bond, number 818 with 34 coupons, payment due May 1, 1870. Lot# 5722 , Leavenworth, Imprinted Revenue stamps RNW2 on Lawrence & Galveston RR Classic right, RNP5 cover. Signed by Alfred RR bond, no coupons, large RN W2 W. Lamb, president and William A. at center. Signed by JM Walker as Hunt, Secretary. Vignette: train at station. Issued by state of Missouri. president. Est. $100-150 HWAC# Green border and ink. Printed: Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg & Litho. Co. 85768 71 Broadway N.Y.Ken Prag collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 83732 328 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5723 , Leavenworth, Lot# 5726 Lawrence & Galveston , Maxwell RR Bond No. 1 Important Land Grant $1000 Bond No. 1 signed & Railroad by JF Joy as president and Company First Amos HAll as secretary. mortgage 7% Three RNs, RN W2 at left, one hundred RN P5 at right and and RM pounds sterling P5 on back Est. $200-400 land grant and HWAC# 85766 railway bond for Jerome B. Chaffee or bearer, number 3457 issued on June 13, 1870 Lot# 5724 , Leavenworth, in Territory of Lawrence and Galveston New Mexico, Rail Road Co $1,000 43 coupons, payable July 1, 1895. Dutch 75 centimes handstamp on 10% Mortgage bond for right face. English 2 shillings 6 pence embossed revenue on face. Leavenworth, Lawrence Not payable in United States but payable in London or Amsterdam. & Galveston Rail Road Brown border and ink, two vignettes: train in background horses Company, No coupons in foreground and women with straw. Imprinted Revenue Stamps attached. Three vignettes, RNP5 and RNV4, signed Jarat C. Reiff secretary. Maxwell Land Grant one train, one men in cart (Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant) was a 1,714,765-acre Mexican land being pulled by horses and grant in Colfax County. New lands covered in the Maxwell Land Grant man on horse stabbing were originally tribal lands belonging to Jicarilla Apache Indians. animal. Number 3448 This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private dated and signed July 1, landholdings in the history of the United States. (Wikipedia) Printed: 1869 by J.M. Walker, president and R.S. Watson, secretary; bottom cut Maxwell Land Grant & Railway Co., Ken Prag Collection Est. $750- off bond. Imprinted Revenue stamp RNP5. First railroad locomotive 1200 HWAC# 83735 to operate in Kansas south of the Kaw river made crossing of river at Lawrence, November 1, 1867. There was a construction race in the Lot# 5727 , Minnesota & Northwestern state to cash in on county bonds before a fixed deadline. To qualify Rail Road Co Two certificates ( 659 & 686) for Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad to lay track from Minnesota & Northwestern Rail Road company Lawrence to Ottawa by January 1, 1868. The track was completed $1,000, 7% interest, issued on July 1, 1870 payable a day before the deadline. (Kansas Historical Society) Several in gold on July 1, 1895 for Christopher Meyer capitalists were named to the board of directors on November 29,1866 and Allen P Man, trustees of New York. Raised including William Sturges of Chicago and Cyrus H. McCormick of corporate seal, black / green on face, green on New York (inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick back, vignette of railroad in background with Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the farm in front. Signed by John A. Willard, president International Harvester Company (Wikipedia), Was contingent upon and James B Hubbell, secretary. Imprinted the railroad completing and equipping 24 miles of track by January Revenue stamp RNW2, no coupons. In 1854 legislators in St. Paul 1, 1868. (Kansas Historical Society). Others printed by: Western requested a grant from the federal government to create a rail line Engraving Co., Chicago. Ken Prag collection. Est. $75-150 HWAC# 83731 across Minnesota Territory to promote new land for Euro-American immigration. The rail road was to help in that endeavor. Public outcry led to scandal and the repeal of the territory’s first land grant Lot# 5725 , Mahoning Coal Rail bill. The charter included a controversial provision stating that future land grants to the territory would be passed to the Minnesota Road Company Two hundred shares and Northwestern Rail Road. The awarding of railroad land grants of cancelled capital stock of Mahoning continued to stir up controversy in the late 1850s and 1860s. In 1871 Coal Rail Road Co, number 61 issued the federal government abandoned the policy, marking the nationwide to C. H. Andrews of Georgetown, end of an era. Printed: National Bank Note Co New York. Ken Prag OH. Dated and countersigned May collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83734 8, 1872. Incorporated in 1871. Cancelled May 16, 1892. Green Lot# 5728 , Missouri River, Fort border, train vignette. R.S. Watson, Scott & Gulf Railroad stock One Transfer Agent. Revenue stamp paper RNU1. Incorporated under the laws of state of Kansas in 1871. hundred forty shares of Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Assigned April 17, 1892 to O.P. Shaffer of New York. The Mahoning Company, number 266 issued to Coal Railroad Company, incorporated in Ohio and Pennsylvania on John V. L. Pruyn dated June 24, 1870, February 25, 1871, to build a line from Youngstown to Brookfield countersigned by James H. Blake. Township. Rail Road started operations in 1868 and stopped service Red ink, border, raised company in 1879 operating across two states. Listed in Castenholz. Printed: seal and train vignette. Revenue Litho of Henry Seibert & Bros. 93 Fulton St. NY. Printed: The Major & Knapp Eng Mfg & Lith Co. Ken Prag collection. Est. $75-250 HWAC# stamped paper RNT4. R.S. Watson, Transfer Agent. Incorporated 83678 under the laws of state of Kansas. The Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad started operations in 1868 and stopped service in 1879. Operated across two states. Listed in Castenholz. Printed: Litho of Henry Seibert & Bros. 93 Fulton St. NY. Ken Prag collection. Est. $250-450 HWAC# 83700 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 329

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5729 Lot# 5732 , New York and Harlem , Montgomery Rail Road Co. Cancelled one hundred and West Point shares of capital stock of New Rail Road Co York and Harlem Rail Road Company: Number 12371. issued June $100 Montgomery 20, 1870. Signed by W. H. Vanderbilt, President. Three vignettes, and West Point train, dog, seated man with women with flag. Imprinted Revenue Railroad Company stamp RNT4. New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North bond, number 541 Railroad Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United dated June 1, 1867. States and may have been the first street railway. Incorporated April Principal payable 25, 1831 the road opened May 10, 1852 to link New York City with January 1, 1873. Harlem. Designed by John Stephenson, opened in stages between Raised company seal. 1832 and 1852. John Mason, one of company’s founders and second Two train vignettes. president from 1831-1839 was a wealthy banker and president of Signed by Charles Chemical Bank (“father of Chemical Bank”) was among the largest Pollard, president. landowners in New York City who owned big area of what is now Two coupons. Grey border and grey and blue ink. Imprint Revenue Midtown Manhattan. Served as New York and Harlem Rail Road’s paper RNP5 and one revenue stamp. Montgomery and West Point second president. William Henry Vanderbilt who signed the stock as Railroad early 19th-century railroad in Alabama and Georgia played president of the New York and Harlem Rail Road Company was the son an important role during the American Civil War as a supply and of “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt the American business magnate transportation route for the Confederate Army. Became target of large and philanthropist. (Wikipedia) Printed: American Bank Note Co. - raid by Union cavalry in the summer of 1864, called Wilson’s Raid. New York. Ken Prag collection. Est. $300-450 HWAC# 83701 Railroads supplied large military forces that were needed to conquer southern part of the United States. Railroad needed that would link Lot# 5733 , New York and Oswego Georgia with the Tennessee and Ohio areas which this railroad helped Midland Rail Road Co bond $1,000 to do. Printed: Henry Seibert & Brothers, Lithographers, 93 Fulton, convertible bond for New York and N.Y. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83733 Oswego Midland Railroad company, number 856, 44 coupons. Gold seal, two train vignettes. Imprinted Revenue stamp RNP5. Black Lot# 5730 , New Orleans, Mobile border and black and green ink. Signed by: DeWitt C, Littlejohn, president and William Conley, treasurer. Principal payable May 1, and Texas Rail Road Co $1,000 1895. In 1853 search started for a railroad route that could cross the 8% Income Bonds of New Orleans, country directed by Colonel Edward W. Serrell. Nothing done on this Mobile and Texas Rail Road Company, plan until the Civil War year of 1865. People didn’t want to be cut off number 2927, dated February 1, in counties that were in land in areas of Norwich, Delhi and Monticello 1872 with 67 coupons. Purple seal, leading to meeting on October 4 of that year including Henry red ink. Two vignettes, eagle and Reynolds Low (lawyer, judge and N.Y. Senator) member, Hezekiah train. Signed by John Griswold, Watkins, Samuel G. Thompson, William D. Stratton, and William A. Rice president. and H. Durkee, treasurer. who went on to develop railway. Printed: Henry Seibert & Bros. Lith., Construction of the railroad between Mobile and New Orleans was Ledger Building, 182 Williams St. NY. Ken Prag collection.. Est. $250- started by the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad in 1869, 400 HWAC# 82271 and completed in 1871. That year, the name of the railroad was changed to the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad. The Louisville & Lot# 5734 , Panama Rail Road Co Nashville Railroad leased the NOM&C on May 8, 1880, and bought the Temporary receipt for five shares railroad at a mortgage foreclosure sale on October 5, 1881. Printed: of capital stock of the Panama Rail Henry Seibert & Bros. Ledger Bldg, cor Williams & Spruce St., N.Y. Ken Road Company of $100 each, number 15653, dated July 12, 1870, Prag collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83729 signed by Hoaley, president. Deep orange Imprinted Revenue stamp Lot# 5731 , New York and RN-T4. Panama Canal Railway is a railway line linking the Atlantic Harlem Rail Raod Company stock Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. Covers 47.6 miles across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, Cancelled 100 shares of New York near Panama City). Building it cost $8 million and 5,000 to 10,000 and Harlem Rail Road Company stock, number 16304 signed W.H. workers perished. Opened in 1855, the railway preceded the Panama Vanderbilt, President, Robert J. Niven, Secretary. Imprinted Revenue Canal by half a century. Known as the Panama Railroad Company stamp RNU1 on center front. Three vignettes, one train, one dog when founded in the 19th century. Since 1998 owned by both Kansas and coupon with flag. Black ink and border. New York and Harlem City Southern and Mi-Jack Products and leased to the government Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line) was one of the of Panama provides both freight and passenger service. (Wikipedia) first railroads in the United States and may have been the first street Grey paper, black ink. Printed: Benjamin F. Corlies, 31 Nassau St. N.Y. railway. Incorporated April 25, 1831 the road opened May 10, 1852 to Ken Prag collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82277 link New York City with Harlem. Designed by John Stephenson, opened in stages between 1832 and 1852. John Mason, one of company’s founders and second president from 1831-1839 was a wealthy banker and president of Chemical Bank (“father of Chemical Bank”) was among the largest landowners in New York City who owned big area of what is now Midtown Manhattan. Served as New York and Harlem Rail Road’s second president. William Henry Vanderbilt who signed the stock as president of the New York and Harlem Rail Road Company was the son of “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt the American business magnate and philanthropist. (Wikipedia). Printed American Bank Note Co, New York. Ken Prag collection. Est. $300- 450 HWAC# 82272 330 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5735 , Panama Rail Road Lot# 5739 , Plymouth, Company receipt Temporary receipt Kankakee & Pacific Rail for one fifty shares of capital stock Road Co Cancelled $1,000, of the Panama Rail Road Company of $100 each, number 16815, 7% bond payable in gold dated Dec 30, 1871, signed by Joy, president. Light orange Imprinted coin, July 1, 1901 number Revenue stamp RN-T4. Panama Canal Railway is a railway line linking 629, 12 coupons, signed July the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. Covers 47.6 1, 1871 for states of Indiana miles across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa and Illinois. Imprinted $1 (Pacific, near Panama City). Building it cost $8 million and 5,000 to Revenue stamp RNW2, red 10,000 workers perished. Opened in 1855, the railway preceded company seal. Two train the Panama Canal by half a century. Known as the Panama Railroad vignettes. Signed by James Company when founded in the 19th century. Since 1998 owned by McGrew, president and John both Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products and leased to the C. Cushman, secretary. Green government of Panama provides both freight and passenger service. border, black ink. Back (Wikipedia) Grey paper, black ink. Printed: Benjamin F. Corlies, 31 side of bond is signed by trustee, John Edgar Thomson, President of Nassau St. N.Y. Ken Prag collection. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82278 Pennsylvania Railroad from 1852 - 1874. The company originated in 1870 from the merger of Kankakee & Illinois River Railroad and Lot# 5736 , Panama Rail Road Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific Railroad, operated the 167-mile stretch Company stock receipt Temporary from Plymouth in Indiana to Bureau Junction in Illinois. Printed: receipt for one hundred shares of Henry Seibert & Bros., Ledger Building cor. William & Spruce St N. Y. capital stock of the Panama Rail Road Company of $100 each, number Ken Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83736 16664, dated August 17, 1871, signed by Hoaley, president. Light orange Imprinted Revenue stamp RN-T4. Panama Canal Railway is a Lot# 5740 , Rockford, railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central Rock Island & St. America. Covers 47.6 miles across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón Louis Rail Road bond (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, near Panama City). Building it cost $8 One cancelled $100 million and 5,000 to 10,000 workers perished. Opened in 1855, the bond, number 7284 railway preceded the Panama Canal by half a century. Known as the for Rockford, Rock Panama Railroad Company when founded in the 19th century. Since Island and St Louis 1998 owned by both Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products Railroad Company, and leased to the government of Panama provides both freight and First Mortgage Bond passenger service. Grey paper, black ink. Printed: Benjamin F. Corlies, 31 Nassau St. N.Y. Ken Prag collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 82276 convertible & payable in gold. Originally named the St. Louis, Rock Lot# 5737 , Panama Island, and Chicago Railroad RN Group Railroad in 1869 and started service in 1870. Line began at edge of Three different Panama Beardstownover Illinois River. In 1882, the name was changed to the Railroad stocks with Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis Railroad. Business continued to slightly different RNs. prosper until the strike of 1922. Signed and countersigned October #16856 1872 with a U1 23, 1868. Payable August 1, 1872. Green company seal, grey border, in deep (red) orange, two train vignettes, issued in state of Illinois. Imprint Revenue Stamp and #17777, 1872 RNT4. Printed: Henry Siebert & Bros, Ledger Building cor William & with a regular yellow- Spruce St N.Y. Ken Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83723 orange (torn). The third piece is unlisted in Lot# 5741 , 1800’s Castenholz, with a RN T Rockford, Rock , but difficult to read the Island & St. Louis variety of RN T through Railroad Company the print. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 83719 Six total certificates. All unsigned and NOT issued, all in Lot# 5738 , Philadelphia & very good condition, Reading Railroad Co Unissued a few tears and some and unsigned. Philadelphia & discoloration; train Reading Rail Road Company, number 18421, Revenue stamped paper vignette, imprinted RNU2. Black border and ink. Chartered in 1833 to provide low-cost vivid tangerine transportation from the Schuylkill and Mahanoy anthracite coal fields revenue stamped in eastern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, main line from Philadelphia paper RNT4 center to Pottsville opened 1842. Expanded by acquiring other railroads. By background. In 1869 had monopoly of coal traffic from Schuylkill anthracite region. service from 1876 Unlisted Castenholz. printed: American Bank Note Company, Phila. - 1899 and then Ken Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83703 became St. Louis, Rock Island & Chicago Railroad. Listed in Castenholz. Printed: Henry Seibert & Bros. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 80667 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 331

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5742 Lot# 5746 , Selma, Marion and , Rockford, Memphis Railroad Co $1000 Selma, Rock Island Marion and Memphis Railroad and St Louis Company first mortgage 8% bond, number 147, endorsed by state Rail Road of Alabama, with 33 coupons, dated September 1, 1869. Principal Company payable September 1, 1889. Two vignettes, one of train and one of bond One workers. Signed by N.B. Forrest, president, S.H. Fowles, secretary. Thousand Green border with Imprint Revenue stamps RNPS on back and RNW2 dollars on left face. Signed by the famed Confederate General Nathan Bedford of Rock, Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), a lieutenant general in the Rockford Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Served as the first Island and St Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He amassed a fortune before the Louis Railroad war as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader. Entered war a Company first private and was promoted to general officer and division commander, mortgage by the war’s end. Accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow bond for allowing forces, under his command, to conduct a massacre of convertible and payable in gold issued October 23, 1868. Payable on hundreds of black Union Army and white Southern Unionist prisoners. August 1, 1918, free from government tax. Green raised company seal, Union Major General William T. Sherman investigated the allegations grey border with black ink, two train vignettes, Imprint revenue stamp and did not charge Forrest with any improprieties. In their postwar RNP5 1 front, 1 bottom back, RBW2 1 front bottom. Railway was writings, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. built in 1868, when merged with the St. Louis, Alton and Rock Island Lee both expressed their belief that the Confederate high command Railroads. Operated 292 miles of rail network between Sterlin and had failed to fully utilize Forrest’s talents. He later found employment East St. Louis, Illinois. Company was founded by Rockford, Rock Island at the Selma-based Marion & Memphis Railroad and eventually & St. Louis Railroad with the St. Louis, Alton and Rock Island Railroads became the company president. Under his direction, the company in 1868. Printed: Lith of Henry Seibert & Bros., New York Ledger went bankrupt. Ken Prag collection. Building, 182 Williams St , Spruce, NY. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 82270 Est. $250-400 HWAC# 83726 Lot# 5747 , South Carolina Rail Lot# 5743 , Rockford, Rock Road Co bond April 1, 1891 issued Island and St. Louis, to Anne Lomini $500 for the state of Railroad Company South Carolina Rail Road Company bonds with 32 coupons. Imprint revenue stamp RNT4. Four vignettes: 1) one train 2) two children bond Cancelled five one with straw and one with flower and 3) two women and a soldier. hundred dollar bond Black border and ink. Signed by William J. McGrath, president. and J, for Rockford, Rock R, Emery, secretary. Island and St. Louis Railroad Company First Mortgage South Carolina Rail Road Company was a railroad company, that Bond convertible operated in South Carolina from 1843 to 1894, when it was succeeded and payable in gold, by the Southern Railway. It was formed in 1844 by the merger of number 6648 A, dated the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company into Louisville, October 23, 1868. Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company. Southern Railway (now Includes six coupons, green company seal, two railroad vignettes. Norfolk Southern Railway) gained control of the line in 1899 and Revenue stamped paper RNT4. Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis consolidated it into the Southern Railway – Carolina Division on July 1, Railroad combined with the St. Louis, Alton & Rock Island Railroad 1902 under special act of South Carolina, approved February 19, 1902. in 1868 to form Rockford, Rock Island and St Louis Rail Road Co. Printed: American Bank Note Co. New York. Ken Prag collection. Est. Operated 292 miles of track between Sterlin and East St. Louis, Illinois. Listed in Castenholz. Ken Prag Collection. Est. $75-150 HWAC# 83720 $150-300 HWAC# 82279 Lot# 5748 , South Carolina Rail Lot# 5744 , Rockford,Rock Island & St. Road Company Cancelled $500 Louis Railroad Company Two certificates bond payable April 1, 1891, number unsigned and NOT issued; printed by Henry 3745, raised company seal signed J. R. Emery, secretary. Imprinted Seibert & Bros. Ledger Building Co.; all in Revenue stamp on front RNU1, back RNQ1.Four vignettes one train, very good condition, a few tears and some two statutes, one with Lady Liberty and soldier. Gray border. South discoloration; IMPORTANT vivid tangerine Carolina Rail Road Company was a railroad company, that operated imprinted revenue stamped paper in the center in South Carolina from 1843 to 1894, when it was succeeded by the background RNT4. Prag Collection. Est. $100- Southern Railway. It was formed in 1844 by the merger of the South 150 HWAC# 80668 Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company into Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company. Southern Railway (now Norfolk Lot# 5745 , Selma and Gulf Southern Railway) gained control of the line in 1899 and consolidated it into the Southern Railway – Carolina Division on July 1, 1902 under Railroad Co bond $1,000 First special act of South Carolina, approved February 19, 1902. (Wikipedia) Mortgage 8% bond for Selma and . Printed: American Bank Note Co. New York. Ken Prag collection. Gulf Railroad Company, number 156, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83724 dated April 1, 1870 with 35 coupons. Principal payable April 1, 1890. Imprinted revenue stamps, front RNW2, two on back RNP5. Tear in certificate. Printed: Henry Seibert & bros. Ledger Building cor. Williams & Spruce St, N.Y. Ken Prag collection. Est. $550-750 HWAC# 83727 332 December 2018

DAY 5 Sunday, Dec 9th Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot# 5749 , Southern Minnesota Railroad Bond Southern P Minnesota RR Bond with RN W2 at center. tear and CONSIGNING WITH damage at stamp area. tape repairs Holabird Western Americana Collections abound. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 85767 P Lot# 5750 , Southern Minnesota Railroad Bond wit Unlisted RN Southern Minnesota RR Historically Researched Descriptions bond, $1000, signed by TB Stoddard as president. Three RNs on obverse. Unlisted variety in CAstenholz. RN W2 at center, flanked on each side Professional Photography by RN P5 Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 83721 Artfully Designed Catalogs Lot# 5751 , St Josepth and Council Bluff’s Extensive Marketing Railroad Company Two stock certificates of St Joseph and Council Bluff’s Railroad Company incorporated in Missouri and Iowa. Imprint Superior Customer Service Revenue stamp RNT4, raised company seal, signed by R. S. Watson, Transfer Agent. Train vignette on top center. 1) One hundred cancelled shares, number 223 issued to H. F. Durant dated May 22, 1809. Countersigned No 220 . 2) Fifteen cancelled shares, number 165 issued to S. Bartlett, Trustee L.C.P., revenue stamp, assigned in Boston, May 13, PREMIER 1869 by G. Buithelt, Trustee. Printed: Lith of Henry Seibert & Bros., 93 Firlton St, NY. Ken Prag collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 83708 Lot# 5752 AUCTIONS , Wallkill Valley Railway Strong Prices Co. bond Five hundred dollar First Mortgage Bonds for Wallkill Valley Railway Company bonds, payable in gold coin (principal Consign your items to the experts and let us and interest free from government help you realize the most for your collections. We’ve sold many fantastic collections over the tax), number 119, issued by state of New York. 54 coupons. Signed by F.S. McKinstry, years and we’re always excited for more great president, A. D. Deyo, Secretary on October 1, 1870. Nice vignette material! Consign with us and enter into a of train running through town and animals along track. Imprinted Revenue stamp RNV4 (left) and RNPS (right). Border in gray, brown lasting and beneficial partnership. ink, small tears. The Wallkill Valley Railroad is a defunct railroad which once operated in Ulster and Orange counties in upstate New York. Its corridor was from Kingston in the north to Montgomery in the south. It crossed both the Wallkill River and Rondout Creek. The railroad was founded in 1866 and ceased regular service in 1977. It was owned by a many companies, including the West Shore and New Holabird’s York Central railroads. (Wikipedia). Listed in Castenholz. Printed: Henry Siebert & Bros., Ledger Bldg. William & Spruce St., N.Y. Ken Western Americana Collections Prag collection. Est. $250-400 HWAC# 83725 Email us at [email protected] Call us toll free 844-HWAC-RNO (4922-766) Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 333

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December 2018 Auction ABSENTEE BID SHEET Holabird Western Americana Collections For Office Use Only 3555 Airway Dr. #308 Reno, NV 89511 775-851-1859 fax 775-851-1834 Bidder # Email: [email protected] Website: www.FHWAC.com Entered By Name ___________________________________________________ Date Company ________________________________________________ Bid Increments Phone ___________________________________________________ From: To: Increment: $1 $95 $5 Alt. Phone _______________________________________________ $100 $190 $10 Address _________________________________________________ $200 $475 $25 $500 $1450 $50 City ________________________________State ___ Zip__________ $1500 $3400 $100 Email ____________________________________________________ $3500 $9750 $250 $10,000 $30,000 $500 Dealer ________ Retail Tax ID ________________________________ $30,000 up $1000 Lot # Bid Lot # Bid Lot # Bid Absentee bidding is offered as a convenience to our clients who cannot attend the live sale. We are not responsible for any errors or failures to execute bids. For highly desired lots, bidding live is always the best way to secure your bids, whether in person or on the phone. If you have any questions or concerns regarding bidding, please contact us and we will guide you through the process and help you find the best method of bidding for your circumstance. By submitting these bids, I agree that I have read and will honor all terms and conditions of the sale. I have submitted all lot numbers and bid amounts correctly, and acknowledge that it is my responsibility to check the accuracy. I understand that a 25% bidder’s premium will be added to the hammer price on Americana, and 20.5% on numismatic items as outlined in the terms and conditions. Signed_____________________________________________________________________________ Date_____________________

December 2018 Auction PHONE BID SHEET For Office Use Only Holabird Western Americana Collections 3555 Airway Dr. #308 Reno, NV 89511 775-851-1859 fax 775-851-1834 Bidder # Email: [email protected] Website: www.FHWAC.com Entered By Name ___________________________________________________ Date Company ________________________________________________ Bid Increments Phone ___________________________________________________ From: To: Increment: $1 $95 $5 Alt. Phone _______________________________________________ $100 $190 $10 Address _________________________________________________ $200 $475 $25 $500 $1450 $50 City ________________________________State ___ Zip__________ $1500 $3400 $100 Email ____________________________________________________ $3500 $9750 $250 $10,000 $30,000 $500 Dealer ________ Retail Tax ID ________________________________ $30,000 up $1000 Lot # Bid Lot # Bid Lot # Bid Absentee bidding is offered as a convenience to our clients who cannot attend the live sale. We are not responsible for any errors or failures to execute bids. For highly desired lots, bidding live is always the best way to secure your bids, whether in person or on the phone. If you have any questions or concerns regarding bidding, please contact us and we will guide you through the process and help you find the best method of bidding for your circumstance. By submitting these bids, I agree that I have read and will honor all terms and conditions of the sale. I have submitted all lot numbers and bid amounts correctly, and acknowledge that it is my responsibility to check the accuracy. I understand that a 25% bidder’s premium will be added to the hammer price on Americana, and 20.5% on numismatic items as outlined in the terms and conditions. Signed_____________________________________________________________________________ Date_____________________