***1952 MISSOURI PACIFIC (MP) RAILROAD RAILWAY STOCK CERTIFICATE*** (MISSOURI)

Description

YOU ARE BIDDING ON THE ACTUAL 1952 MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD RAILWAY RR STOCK CERTIFICATE AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS.
IT IS ISSUED TO BEAR STEARNS & CO, AND HAS A NICE STEAM TRAIN VIGNETTE IN THE TOP CENTER.
WINNING BIDDER PAYS .99 SHIPPING/HANDLING.
I DO NOT SHIP OUTSIDE THE LOWER 48 STATES
HISTORY OF THIS RAILROAD IS BELOW:
The
Missouri Pacific Railroad
(
reporting mark
MP
), commonly abbreviated as
MoPac
, was one of the
first railroads in the United States
west of the
Mississippi River
. MoPac was a
Class I railroad
growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, including the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
(SLIMS),
Texas and Pacific Railway
(TP),
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
(C&EI),
St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway
(SLBM),
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway
(KO&G),
Midland Valley Railroad
(MV),
San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad
(SAU&G),
Gulf Coast Lines
(GC),
International-Great Northern Railroad
(IGN), Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Railroad,
New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway
(NOTM),
Missouri-Illinois Railroad
(MI), as well as the small
Central Branch Railway
(an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the
Alton and Southern Railroad
(AS).
In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P and its subsidiaries, C&EI and Missouri-Illinois.
Union Pacific Corporation
, the parent company of the
Union Pacific Railroad
, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the
Southern Pacific
, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, its full merger into the Union Pacific Railroad did not become official until January 1, 1997.