RAILROAD
PASSES PAGE 2
We recently acquired an intriguing railroad pass collection; the following are just
a few of the 50 passes
dated 1891 - 1893.
Railroad passes from Texas,
Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, Georgia,
Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, California and Mexico
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The following railroad pass collection
was acquired from the Estate of T.J. Moss.*
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SOLD
ORANGE BELT RAILWAY, 1893
Tarpon Route
Lacoochee,
Macon, Lenard, Blanton, Chipco, and San Antonio, Florida
$450.00
SOLD
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TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD
1893
Hosford & Sons, New York (engravers)
$300.00
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SOLD
LINEHAN RAILWAY TRANSFER COMPANY
1892
Gast - St. Louis & New York (engravers)
$400.00
SOLD
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SOLD
TOLEDO, ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS
CITY RAILROAD COMPANY
1892
$175.00
SOLD
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CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD
1892
$375.00
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NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA AND
ST. LOUIS RAILWAY
1892
American Bank Note Co., New
York
$350.00
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SOLD
RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY
1892
Colorado, Utah, and New
Mexico railroad pass
San Juan Mountains
Elgan Engraving Company,
Denver
SOLD
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SOLD
JACKSONVILLE
SOUTHEASTERN LINE
1892
$250.00
SOLD
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SOLD
LOOKOUT INCLINE COMPANY
Operating LOOKOUT INCLINE RAILWAY
and
MOUNT LOOKOUT RAILROAD
1892
Chattanooga, Tennessee
SOLD
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SOLD
CAPE FEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY
RAILWAY
1893
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Hosford & Sons, New York
(engravers)
Condition of front: very good; light fading
Condition of back: abrasions along margins
SOLD
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ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO
RAILWAY & BRANCHES
1892
Stephens Litho. & Eng.
Co., St. Louis
$225.00
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*T.J. MOSS TIE COMPANY
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
Thomas Jefferson Moss was born March 1, 1857. He was orphaned at the age of
six and began working when he was ten. He saved his money and went to
Central
College
at
Fayette
,
MO.
He took a teaching job in
Tennessee
for one year and returned to
Missouri
with six hundred dollars. He began a small business providing railroad ties to
road being built in
Missouri
. In 1879 Moss bought an interest in a mercantile company. His new partners
joined him in the tie business and he was able to expand. Three years later he
bought out his partners and organized the Moss Tie Co. In 1886 he purchased
40,000 acres of timber land in Stoddard County Missouri. He had seven sawmills
cutting railroad ties and bridge timbers and an equal number of general stores
operating in various places. He was employing around 3,000 men in all his
operations. The great railroad expansion of this period allowed Moss to take a
leading role in supplying ties to railroads in the
Midwest
. He established his headquarters in
St. Louis
in 1888. Moss was known as “The Tie King”. He built and became president of
the
Paducah
,
Tennessee
and Alabama Railway, Tennessee Midland Railway, Cape Girardeau Transportation
Company and the Mississippi Packet Co. Moss died in August of 1893. In 15 years
Moss had built his 600 dollars into over one million. He had left behind the
largest tie company in the country.
John Wallace Fristoe took over the reins of the T.J. Moss Tie Company and it
was incorporated in September of 1893. By the turn of the Century the cross tie
market was over 100,000,000 units per year. In these early days of the tie
business, only white oak ties were desirable to the railroads because they would
last the longest. The company eventually built and operated three treatment
plants for injecting preservative chemical into other woods to make them last
longer.
Kerr McGee eventually bought the company and merged it with American
Creosoting Corp. to form Moss
America
.
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Railroad
Books A
Railroad
Books B
Railroad
Books C
Railroad
Books D
Railroad
Books E
Railroad
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Railroad
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Railroad
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Railroad
Passes Page 4
Railroad
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Railroad
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Railroad
Passes Page 7
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