Kansas City Railways - 1924 dated Railroad Stock Certificate
Inv# RS2523 Stock
Train vignette by Western Bank Note & Eng. Co. Chicago. Kansas City Railways Company (1911-1925) was established as a reorganization of the Metropolitan, maintaining the same ownership before being separated into an independent entity.
The term "Kansas City Railways Company" is associated with the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCSR), a Class I freight railroad that functions in the Midwestern region of the United States and is currently integrated into the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) network following its merger with Canadian Pacific.
This company was responsible for the complete street railway system that catered to the cities of Kansas City and Independence in Missouri, as well as Kansas City and Rosedale in Kansas. Following a series of strikes after the war, which led to significant property damage and violence, the railway entered receivership in 1920.
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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