I love these stock certificates . The art in the certificate captures the thinking and business of the day. The New York Central Certificate is dated from 1914 so 100 years. At that time . the greatest achievement of the New York Central company was the completion of the Grand Central Terminal and the electrification of the railroad that allowed this terminal project . The certificate shows one of their new electric trains heading up the Hudson in the Highbridge area.
The Hudson and Manhattan Tunnels certificate is even more interesting . It shows the Pennsylvania Train Shed and the new H&M office towers at 30 and 50 church street in New York City. You can see the PRR ferries and a lot of river traffic with lots of smoke. Notice the line of what looks like US Naval warships. This whole scene conveys a sense of great power. Its also interesting that the artist has chosen to place the H&M train on the New Jersey side of the tunnel . When I was a kid, we thought of this line as a "jersey company"
