Description: Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795-1868), Financier. Son of John Stevens whose business affairs he managed in great part; brother of Robert L. Stevens. Organized the Camden & Amboy Railroad in 1830 and managed it with great success until his death. Experimented with construction of an armored or iron-clad warship (1814), which came to fruition in his vessel named the Stevens Battery (1854). 1833 Camden & Amboy RR stock has a nice signature of Stevens. Excellent Condition. Quite Rare! 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 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. 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. The Camden and Amboy was the first railroad to be conceived primarily as a passenger railroad and the first to employ steam locomotives to replace animal powered vehicles on rails. C&A first purchased and operated (what is now the oldest surviving operable steam loco Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 570 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2025-01-27T20:59:44.000Z
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