Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. - Monopoly Game Board Railroad - 1899-1901 dated Railway Stock Certificate
Inv# RS1005A StockBaltimore and Ohio Railroad Locomotive Stock. Train in circle top left. Very elaborate Victorian borders. Becoming scarce. Popular. The prettiest of B & O stocks. Available in Red, Green or Orange. Please specify color.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad in the United States and the nation's oldest, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, who had previously benefited from the National Road, sought to establish trade with settlers crossing the Appalachian Mountains. The B&O faced competition from several existing and planned transportation routes, such as the Albany-Schenectady Turnpike (built in 1797), the Erie Canal (opened in 1825), and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Initially, the B&O operated entirely within Maryland, with its original line running from the port of Baltimore to Sandy Hook, Maryland, which opened in 1834. At Sandy Hook, the railroad connected with Harper's Ferry—first by boat, and later via the Wager Bridge over the Potomac River into Virginia—and provided access to the navigable Shenandoah River. The B&O Railroad gained additional fame as one of the four railroads featured in the original version of the popular board game Monopoly. It is the only railroad in the game that did not directly serve Atlantic City, New Jersey, whose street names were used in the game's original edition.
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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