Brazil Railway Co. - 1911 dated Railroad Stock Certificate with Dividend Coupons Attached - Foreign Bond

$100, 6% ordinary share Bond with full coupon page attached. Gorgeous color and engraving by Waterlow & Sons-London.

The Brazil Railway Company was a Brazilian railway enterprise established at the beginning of the 20th century, specifically on November 9, 1906. It expanded significantly, and within a decade, it controlled approximately 11,000 kilometers of the 23,400 kilometers of railways in Brazil, representing 47% of the country's rail network, a status it maintained until the mid-1917. Percival Farquhar, associated with the renowned Farquhar consortium, was a prominent figure in this venture. He was a controversial and ambitious American capitalist who not only managed railroads but also had interests in shipping, agriculture, lumber, paper production, cold storage, hospitality, electricity, telecommunications, ports, tram services, metallurgy, cattle ranching, and mineral extraction.

The Brazil Railway Company owned or controlled several railroads, including the Sorocabana Railway, Wood Railway, Paraná Railway, Dona Tereza Cristina Railway, North of Paraná Railway, Are Pablo-River Grande Railway, Victory to Mines Railway, São Paulo Railway S/A, Mogiana Railway Company, and the Compagnie Auxiliaire des Chemins de Fer au Brésil. Additionally, it provided tram services in Salvador, São Paulo, Belém, and Grande River, as well as managing the Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company. In 1917, the Brazil Railway Company and its subsidiaries entered a regime of forced agreement, leading to the expropriation of its activities and their transfer to state control, with the exception of the Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company, which continued to operate until its nationalization in 1938 under the government of Getúlio Vargas.