New York Pittsburgh and Chicago Construction Company stock certificate circa 1881 (New York)

Very nice railroad stock cert. Wonderful vignette of a period steam train at a train depot with passengers milling about.  Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 188_ but circa 1881 from incorporation records. Measures approximately 12 x 7 inches. Note the missing 'h' for Pittsburgh in the title and body of the certificate printing.

The New York. Pittsburgh & Chicago Railroad Company was organized in June, 1881, with Gen. James S. Negley as President, and several millionaires for Directors. This organization at first virtually embraced the Pittsburgh, Newcastle & Lake Erie and Pittsburgh & Western roads, although the latter, a few days afterward, combined into an independent company. 

The intention of this company from the start has been to build their road to Marion, here to connect with the Chicago & Atlantic. The road is already in operation as far as New Lisbon, Ohio, a distance of fifty four miles from Pittsburg. John Halliard, of New York City, agent and general solicitor for the company, has been in Marion this season, the summer of 1883, to raise the $25,000 expected of the citizens here, and to secure the right of way, one-half the subscriptions to be paid when the road is graded and the other half when the cars are running from New Lisbon to this place.