Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis - 1944 dated Specimen $1,000 Bond
Inv# SE3621 Specimen Bond
$1,000 4% Specimen Bond printed by Security Banknote Company. Several rows of coupons at left. The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (reporting mark TRRA) is a switching and terminal railroad that handles traffic in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. It is co-owned by several Class I railroads that reach the city. It was founded in 1889 in a deal orchestrated by Jay Gould with:
Missouri Pacific Railroad
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, later part of the Missouri Pacific
Wabash Railroad, later part of the Norfolk and Western Railway
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, later part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, later part of the New York Central Railroad
Its current owners are:
BNSF Railway (1/7)
Canadian National Railway (1/7) (Illinois Central Railroad until 1999)
CSX Transportation (1/7)
Norfolk Southern Railway (1/7)
Union Pacific Railroad (3/7)
It also connects with the Kansas City Southern Railway; the Canadian Pacific Railway is the only Class I railroad that does not reach St. Louis. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Railroad_Association_of_St._Louis
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