HANNIBAL and ST JOSEPH RAILROAD Train Station Spittoon ANTIQUE *MUSEUM* 1860's
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SUPER RARE SPITTOON from a Train Station or Train car back in the 1860's from St Joseph MO. This is NOT A REPOP or reproduction it is THE REAL DEAL (MUSEUM QUALITY) It is really old you can tell by the patina and cracking of the brass Look at the pictures and see for yourself and its DOUBLE SIDED I decided to sell off some of my collection and this is one of my personal favorites It is 11" high by approx 11" wide Questions please ask before offer Serious buyer only I dont want this returned even though I offer 14 day money back PAYPAL ONLY The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri , in the northwest. It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri .The line connected the second and third largest cities in the state of Missouri prior to the American Civil War. The stage route that it paralleled previously been called the " Hound Dog Trail ". [edit ]History Construction on the railroad (formed during an 1846 meeting at the Hannibal office of John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain )[1] began in 1851 from both cities. Bonds from counties along the route along with the donation of 600,000 acres (2,400 km²) in land voted by Congress paid for
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