OLD COLONY RAILWAY COMPANY 1938

ORIGINAL-AKTIE der The OLD COLONY RAILWAY COMPANY (quer gr. 4°, schön lithographiertes Dokument mit Abbildung der Eisenbahn und dem Hafen von Boston) über TEN SHARES (Shares $ 100,- each), vom Schatzmeister / Treasurer der Company und deren Vize-Präsident in Tinte eigenhändig signiert  (Signaturen schön, ungelocht)   Boston, 14.III.1938

(The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod. For many years the Old Colony Railroad Company also operated steamboat and ferry lines, including those of the Fall River Line with express train service from Boston to its wharf in Fall River where passengers boarded luxury liners to New York City. The company also briefly operated a railroad line on Martha's Vineyard, as well as the freight-only Union Freight Railroad in Boston. The OC was named after the "Old Colony", the nickname for the Plymouth Colony.)