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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1365599, member: 24274&quot;]<b>Trains and trolleys</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Some fun ones today -- I&#039;ve always loved locomotives and have a number of obsolete stocks and bonds that these appear on.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is a Franklin Bank Note engraving, circa 1880s. It appears on many stocks, including a number of certificates from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Co.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, an engine built by the Baldwin Locomotive Co. (it says so on the coal car). The engraving was done by Continental Bank Note Co. and it appears on an 1875 bond of the Atlantic &amp; St. Lawrence Railroad Co.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an ID on the third locomotive, but it&#039;s a more modern vignette, judging by the 1920s style automobile in the background.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Trolley Car&quot; was engraved in 1894 by William Brown for American Bank Note. It appears as the signature vignette on many stocks of the Consolidated Traction Co. of Pittsburgh.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last trolley vignette was engraved by Edwin Gunn in 1899 for American Bank Note. I haven&#039;t found it on any bank note security -- yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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