OTHER History wanted-

Boxcab: Recommend checking in an old Moody's or Poor's. Mine only shows roads going back to 1925, so the stock certificate will predate that.

Ed

 

sorry my info didn't help

 

Here is the only statement I found.

The New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway was incorporated in Pennsylvania and Ohio

My thought of this is that this was a paper company incorperated to build for the PRR,NYC or B&O

I did find that there were sites selling old stock certificates from this railroad but one thing I found interesting was that there was one called "New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Construction Company.

 

"The New York. Pittsburgh & Chicago Railroad Company was organized in June, 1881, with Gen. James S. Negley as President, and several millionaires for Directors. This organization at first virtually embraced the Pittsburgh, Newcastle & Lake Erie and Pittsburgh & Western roads, although the latter, a few days afterward, combined into an independent company. The intention of this company from the start has been to build their road to Marion, here to connect with the Chicago & Atlantic. The road is already in operation as far as New Lisbon, Ohio, a distance of fiftyfour miles from Pittsburg. John Halliard, of New York City, agent and general solicitor for the company, has been in Marion this season, the summer of 1883, to raise the $25,000 expected of the citizens here, and to secure the right of way, one-half the subscriptions to be paid when the road is graded and the other half when the cars are running from New Lisbon to this place. A large committee has been appointed, headed by Caleb H."

from here:

http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/History1883/MarionChapVIII.htm

Apparently it was first conceived as narrow gauge:

A Biography of Isaac Cannon, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

There is a reference to it on page 15 of this:

http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1915%20June%2004.wd.pdf

Mark