Ohio and Mississippi Railway Co. - 1890 dated Stock Certificate with Revenue Stamp

Stock printed by the Homer Lee Bank Note Co. New York with 1 two shillings stamp. Superb! The Ohio and Mississippi Railway, originally known as the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road and abbreviated as O&M, was a railway that operated between Cincinnati, Ohio, and East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1857 until 1893. General Ormsby M. Mitchel served as the civil engineer for this undertaking. The construction of the railway commenced in 1854, running parallel to the Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal. The terminal in East St. Louis, located near the Mississippi River, was completed in 1857. This railway was one of the founding lines of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. On September 17, 1861, during the American Civil War, a train transporting Union soldiers fell through a sabotaged bridge in Huron, Indiana, resulting in injuries or fatalities for approximately 100 individuals. On October 6, 1866, the Adams Express Company car was robbed by the Reno Gang just east of Seymour, Indiana, marking the first recorded train robbery in the United States. In 1893, the railway merged with the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway and is currently part of CSX Transportation's Indiana Subdivision and Illinois Subdivision.