Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co. - $1,000 6% Uncanceled Railway Gold Bond - Wes For Sale

$1,000, 6% Gold Bond. Vignettes of allegorical females at top center and top left, and vignette of Native Americans atop a bluff watching a train pass in the distance. Almost all coupons attached. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S. railroad that owned or operated two disjointed segments, one connecting St. Louis, Missouri with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico with Needles in Southern California. It was incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 as a transcontinental railroad connecting Springfield, Missouri and Van Buren, Arkansas with California. The central portion was never constructed, and the two halves later became parts of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway systems, now both merged into the BNSF Railway. The A&P\'s earliest predecessor was the Pacific Railroad, incorporated by the Missouri General Assembly in 1849 to connect St. Louis and a point south of Kansas City across the center of the state. In response to an 1852 federal law granting public lands to Missouri to aid in constructing two cross-state railroads, the state approved an amendment to the 1849 Pacific Railroad law in December 1852, Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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