Central Passenger Railway Company stock certificate c1903 (New Jersey) 

Atlantic City trolley car system. Great vignette of streetcar in front of hotels. Streetcar has "Atlantic City" on the side. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1903 from company records. Approximately 11 x 8 inches.

The Central Passenger Railway Company was incorporated in the state of New Jersey in 1903. One of the company's first lines was an open car trolley that ran along South Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City. In 1906, the line was leased to the Atlantic City & Shore Railroad, which was succeeded in 1945 by the Atlantic City Transportation Company. Central Passenger Railway Company headquarters was located at Maine & Caspian Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Streetcars were discontinued in 1955, while bus service continued through 1985 when the company was purchased by New Jersey Transit.

The founder was the turn-of-the-20th-century boss Louis "The Commodore" Kuehnle (famous in the HBO series Boardwalk). The local trolley system, important to the convenience of both tourists and residents, was a mess. Kuehnle organized the Central Passenger Railway Company, which was eventually sold to the Atlantic City and Shore Company that gave residents and visitors alike first-rate street and railway service.

Louis Kuehnle, (1857 – 1934), known as "Commodore Kuehnle", was an American businessman and politician of German descent. He is considered a pioneer in the growing resort town of Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the late 1880s and the early 1900s. He was leader of the Republican organization that controlled Atlantic City in the early 1900s.

New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, who later became a US president, pursued Kuehnle after his 1910 election as part of his campaign to clean up Atlantic City. That effort led to the unsuccessful prosecution of Kuehnle for election fraud and the successful prosecution and conviction of him for a conflict of interest in connection with a government contract. Kuehnle then had his name tarnished by scandal, and he was succeeded by Enoch "Nucky" Johnson as leader of the organization.

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