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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2253

New York & Boston RR Co (MA/RI/CT), $100 6% mortgage bond, 1860, passing train, and $100 and $200 bonds, 1862, train passes busy quarry, "Air Line" in border; with $100 shs, 1855-59, train passes river as another crosses trestle, "The First Air Line" left (6), all black, VF-VF+. "Air line" railroads were built to take the shortest, flattest routes, and thus required that mountains and rivers be tunneled through and bridged, rather than following the shape of the landscape. [9]

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