Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Co. - Specimem Certificate - Specimen Stocks for Sale

Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Co. - Specimem Certificate - Specimen Stocks For Sale

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Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Co. - Specimem Certificate - Specimen Stocks :
$124.00

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company, New York. Spokane, Washington. Great Unique Vignette! The Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company (S.&I.E.R.R.Co.) was an electrified interurban railway operating in Spokane, Washington and vicinity, extending into northern and central Idaho. The system originated in several predecessor roads beginning c. 1890, incorporated in 1904, and ran under its own name to 1929. It merged into the Great Northern Railway and later, the Burlington Northern Railroad, which operated some roads into the 1980s. One of the earliest components of Spokane's early interurban system was the Spokane and Montrose Street Railway, a narrow-gauge system with the distinction of being the first motorized street railway in Spokane. Its owner, in 1893, was Francis H. Cook (1851"1920). Cook, embarrassed by the Panic of 1893, sold the line to a group of Spokane businessmen headed by Jay P. Graves (1859"1948) in 1902. Prior to this Graves and his partners had bought Cook's foreclosed land holdings in the Spokane area. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.