Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad  $1000 bond certificate 1874 (New York)

Older RR bond. Amazing engraved vignette of the New York state seal flanked by steam train and Niagara Falls scenes. Horizontal format. Nice $1000 underprint in red. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1874 in the text. Folds from storage. Cancellation punch holes as shown.  Measuring approximately 14.5 x 9 inches.

The Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad was a railroad that grew, in stages, from Rome, New York to Watertown and then to Ogdensburg, NY and Massena, NY. The original Rome and Watertown Railroad terminated in Cape Vincent, NY on the St. Lawrence River.

The Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad began in 1842 as the Watertown & Rome Railroad to link Watertown with Rome, NY on the Syracuse & Utica Railroad, later consolidated as part of the New York Central Railroad. The Potsdam & Watertown Railroad was formed at this time to link Watertown with Potsdam, New York in St. Lawrence County. In 1861, these two railroads merged as the new Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad.

The RW&O was nicknamed "Rotten Wood & Old Rusty Rails" due to its crumbling infrastructure. By 1878, the RW&O had been merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.

A branch of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad, commonly known as "The Hojack Line", operated along the south shore of Lake Ontario, from Oswego, New York to Niagara Falls, New York.

After it was merged into the New York Central in 1913, the RW&O line was known as the St. Lawrence Division.

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