Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond.
[ELDRIDGE, John S.].
Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond.
Rare Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond; signed by John Seabury Eldridge as the company's president
$950.00
In Stock
Item Number: 150470
Handsomely engraved bond of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company in the amount of $1,000. One page, the bond is signed by John Seabury Eldridge as the company’s president. The lower portion retains 60 intact coupons. In fine condition. Triple matted and framed. The bond measures 13.5 inches by 25.5 inches. The entire piece measures 20.5 inches by 33 inches.
The New York and New England Railroad (NY&NE) was a major late–nineteenth-century rail system linking southern New York State with Hartford, Connecticut, and extending east to Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts, operating under that name from 1873 to 1893. It evolved out of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, itself a consolidation of earlier lines whose roots reach back to 1846, and it became an important competitor to the region’s dominant New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. After entering bankruptcy in 1893, the company reorganized as the New England Railroad, only to be leased by the New Haven in 1898—an outcome that reflects the era’s broader trend toward railroad consolidation and corporate control of regional transportation networks. Although much of the original system has been abandoned, parts of its right-of-way remain in use, including a Massachusetts segment incorporated into today’s MBTA Franklin/Foxboro Line and portions in Connecticut that continue to support freight service.
