United New Jersey RR & Canal Specimen s/n 0000 100 Shares Common Stock ABNC

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United New Jersey RR & Canal Specimen s/n 0000 100 Shares Common Stock ABNC
Unsigned
and punch hole canceled.
The cert  is in like new condition., no tears or folds
The
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company
(
UNJ&CC
) was a railroad company which began as the important
Camden & Amboy Railroad
(
C&A
), whose 1830 lineage began as one of the eight or ten earliest permanent North American
[1]
railroads, and among the first common carrier transportation companies whose
prospectus
marketed an enterprise aimed (with a priority or principally) at carrying passengers fast and competing with stagecoaches between New York Harbor and Philadelphia-Trenton. Among the other earliest chartered or incorporated railroads, only the
Mohawk and Hudson Railroad
and
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
were chartered with passenger services in mind.
[a]
Later, after mergers, the UNJ&CC became a subsidiary part of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
(PRR) system in New Jersey by the later merger and acquisition of several predecessor companies in 1872; these purchases also included the PRR's main line to New York City (now
Amtrak
's
Northeast Corridor
). Prior to 1872, its main lines were the
Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company
(C&A, below), the first railroad in New Jersey and one of the
first railroads in the United States
.