Alabama and Vicksburg Railway stock certificate c1903 (Mississippi)

Nice vignette of a period steam train pulling freight cars. Larger sized stock. Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 19__ but circa 1903 from issued examples. Vertical fold from storage. Measuring approximately 11 x 11 inches. 

The Alabama and Vicksburg Railway (A&V) was chartered in 1889 in Mississippi and in operation, from Meridian, westward to Vicksburg for a total of 141 miles until being taken over by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1959.

The A&V acquired all the tracks, rolling stock, and fixed property, from the 1889 reorganization. Agreements were made on rental property in Vicksburg and Meridian as well as lands from some noncarriers.

The Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company had its origins in the Vicksburg and Jackson and the Southern Mississippi railroads. The Vicksburg and Jackson and the Southern Mississippi railroads were consolidated in 1856 as the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad. The railroad continued to operate under this name until it was foreclosed upon and sold on February 4, 1889.

The Sterling Trust, Limited, of London, England, through its subsidiary, the Alabama, New Orleans, Texas, and Pacific Junction Railways Company, Limited, bought the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad. The railroad was incorporated as the Vicksburg and Alabama Railway Company on March 18, 1889. The Sterling Trust, Limited, continued to operate the railway until 1926 when the Illinois Central Railroad, through its subsidiary, the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, leased the railway for 365 years.

The Illinois Central Railroad began to abandon small sections of track controlled by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad in 1935, and this continued until 1978. The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, formed in 1972 by the merger of the Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio railroads, continued to operate sections of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad until 1999. The Illinois Central Railroad merged with the Canadian National Railway in late 1999.

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