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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1135024, member: 12789"]My oh my, don't you just love how bonds and stocks can have a larger palette for their artistry than banknotes?</p><p><br /></p><p>About the New York Central RR locomotive, the city of New York enacted legislation prohibiting steam locomotives from downtown stations due to the smoke and pollution. For that reason the NYCRR had to purchase and maintain the electric locomotives that would pick up the passenger trains outside of the city to bring them into the downtown stations. They did not use them for mainline long distance runs, but the Penn Central did on some of their East Coast routes. Really they were way ahead of their time most passenger and freight in Europe are on electrified grids now as in the long run it is more efficient.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]116121.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>About that vignette, it was actually used on this Russian 200 ruble bond - the bond also doubled up as an emergency currency in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. But the vignette was proprietary to ABNCo and was used on other bonds, but also notably on the reverse of the Series 1935 and Series 1937 Bank of Canada $1000 bills.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1135024, member: 12789"]My oh my, don't you just love how bonds and stocks can have a larger palette for their artistry than banknotes? About the New York Central RR locomotive, the city of New York enacted legislation prohibiting steam locomotives from downtown stations due to the smoke and pollution. For that reason the NYCRR had to purchase and maintain the electric locomotives that would pick up the passenger trains outside of the city to bring them into the downtown stations. They did not use them for mainline long distance runs, but the Penn Central did on some of their East Coast routes. Really they were way ahead of their time most passenger and freight in Europe are on electrified grids now as in the long run it is more efficient. [ATTACH]116121.vB[/ATTACH] About that vignette, it was actually used on this Russian 200 ruble bond - the bond also doubled up as an emergency currency in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. But the vignette was proprietary to ABNCo and was used on other bonds, but also notably on the reverse of the Series 1935 and Series 1937 Bank of Canada $1000 bills.[/QUOTE]
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