Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company bond scrip c1890 (Ohio Indiana)

Uncommon RR piece.  Plain certificate for a company formed for mergers of  many other railroads. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1890s. Dated 189_. Approximately 12 x 6.5 inches.

The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern was incorporated July 31, 1899, under the general laws of Ohio and Indiana, for the purpose of consolidating the property, rights, and franchises of The Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Parkersburg Railway Company and The Cincinnati, Louisville and Vincennes Railway Company.

It also acquired by purchase the property, rights, and franchises of two subsidiary lines of The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, namely, The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Terminal Company and The Marietta Railway Company. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, itself, and those corporations, together with their predecessors, total 28 different corporations and comprise the line of corporate succession culminating in the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern as at present constituted.

Predecessor companies included:

• Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Parkersburg Railway Company
• Cincinnati, Louisville, and Vincennes Railway Company
• St. Louis, Springfield & Vincennes Railway Company
• Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company
• Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company (of 1889)
• Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad Company
• Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company
• Belpre and Cincinnati Railroad Company
• Hillsborough and Cincinnati Railroad Company
• Union Rail Road
• Cincinnati and Baltimore Railway Company
• Baltimore Short Line Railway Company
• Cincinnati and Bedford Railway Company
• Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company (second corporation)
• Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company (first corporation)
• Springfield and Illinois South Eastern Railway Company
• Pana, Springfield and North Western Railroad Company
• Illinois South Eastern Railway Company
• Indiana Southern Railway Company
• Fort Wayne & Southern Rail Road Company
• New Albany and Eastern Railway Company
• Marietta Railway Company
• United Terminal Railway Company
• Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Terminal Company

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