Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad stock certificate c1880 (Washington) 

WA OR RR company. Awesome vignette of an older steam locomotive. Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 18__ but circa 1880 from company records. Measuring approximately 9.5 x 7 inches. 

Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad was incorporated 1880 as part of the Oregon Improvement company. In 1916, the company became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company.

The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad was a narrow-gauge railroad and was the first proper railroad to serve Seattle. Despite its ambitious name, actual construction never went beyond King County, the county of which Seattle itself is the seat. After being sold to Henry Villard's Oregon Improvement Company in 1880 it was renamed the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad. In 1916, that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company.

Like its predecessor, the railroad continued to lay track in the coal-rich terrain of Western Washington, mainly extending lines south and east from Renton via Black Diamond to Franklin (1884), but also extending service a short distance from Newcastle to nearby Coal Creek in 1881, The Puget Sound Shore Railroad was never really an adequate connection to the nation's railroad network. The line was built from the Black River Junction via Kent to Stuck Junction, leading in theory to the Northern Pacific's main terminal at Tacoma, but the Northern Pacific largely declined to operate the line.

The Great Seattle Fire in June 1889 destroyed C&PSRR's Seattle station, shops, roundhouse, coal bunkers, all of its wharves, four freight cars and a locomotive. The railroad was up and running again by the end of the year. The Panic of 1893 severely impacted the Oregon Improvement Company, which went into receivership in 1895, emerging in 1897 as the Pacific Coast Company, a name the reflected its inclusion of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. The C&PSRR was consolidated into the Pacific Coast Railroad Company on March 26, 1916.

The Pacific Coast Railroad Company was incorporated November 27, 1897, but did not operate until March 23, 1916. In 1951, the Pacific Coast Railroad became a subsidiary of the Great Northern. It was sold to Burlington Northern (now part of the BNSF Railway) March 2, 1970.

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