Lake Erie and Western Railroad Co. - 1891 dated Specimen Railway Bond
Inv# SE1113 Specimen Bond
Indiana
Ohio
$1,000 5% Specimen Gold Bond printed by Homer Lee Bank Note Co., New York. 2 complete pages of coupons attached. The Lake Erie and Western Railroad was a railroad that operated in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The Lake Erie and Western Depot Historic District at Kokomo, Indiana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The Seney Syndicate linked several short railroads in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to form the Lake Erie and Western Railroad in 1879 and 1880. The Lake Erie and Western extended from the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway at Fremont, Ohio, 350 miles (560Â km) westward through Fostoria, Ohio, to Bloomington, Illinois and Peoria, Illinois.
In 1900, the Lake Erie and Western came under the control of the New York Central Railroad. After operating it as a separate entity for two decades, the New York Central sold the Lake Erie and Western to the Nickel Plate Road in 1922. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie_and_Western_Railroad
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