Docks Connecting Railway Company stock certificate circa 1886 (New Jersey)

Railroad stock certificate from a small short line) operator. Steam train vignette with passengers boarding. Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 188_. Circa 1886 from company records.  Measures approximately 10 x 7 inches. 

The Docks Connecting Railway was incorporated April 17, 1886, under the general laws of New Jersey to construct and operate a railroad from a point east of the Bergen tunnel in Jersey City to Union, all in Hudson County. The line was only completed from a connection with the railroad of the Long Dock Company, east of Bergen tunnel, to a connection with the railroad of the New Jersey Junction Railroad Company, near Seventeenth and Monmouth Streets - a distance of just under a mile.

The property of the Docks Connecting Railway was operated by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company and its receivers from the date it was placed in operation, about 1888, to December 1, 1895. From the latter date to December 31, 1917, the property was operated by the Erie. The common-carrier property was taken over for operation by the United States Railroad Administration on January 1, 1918, as part of the system of the Erie.