$1,000 3 1/2% Railroad Bond printed by American Bank Note Company, New York. Portrait of Wm K Vanderbilt with a steam train on each side. Superb graphics. Scarce!! The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833 and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie (in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio) and across northern Indiana. The line's trackage is still used as a major rail transportation corridor and hosts Amtrak passenger trains, with the ownership in 1998 split at Cleveland between CSX to the east, and Norfolk Southern in the west. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Shore_and_Michigan_Southern_Railway Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.