West Shore Railroad $1000 bond certificate 1885 (New York)

Tremendous vignette of a Hudson River scene with sailing ships and steamboats. Vertical format. Nice $1000 underprint in green. Issued and cancelled. Perforation and stamps on the face. Some wrinkles and light tears outside of border. Dated 1885. Folds from storage. Measuring approximately 14 x 9.5 inches.

The West Shore Railroad was a U.S. railway company active in New York and New Jersey between 1885 and 1952. Incorporated in 1885 to reorganize the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway, it was intended to compete with New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.

Its main line ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, on the west bank of the Hudson River opposite New York City, north to Albany, New York, and then west to Buffalo.

When the Pennsylvania Railroad sought to acquire the New York West Shore and Buffalo Railway and challenge the New York Central, J. P. Morgan helped the NYC take over West Shore by agreeing to let go its South Pennsylvania Railroad. Within a week of being acquired in late November of 1885, the line it was reincorporated as the West Shore Railroad; it was formally merged into the New York Central Railroad in 1952.

The line became part of Penn Central in 1968, and passed to Conrail in 1976 after Penn Central's 1970 bankruptcy. When Conrail was divided between CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, in 1999, the West Shore Railroad, along with most of the old New York Central lines, became part of CSX.

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