Pass no. C1158, issued to Jno. R. Wood for the year 1884. Signed by the general manager (illegible). Great design with a vignette of train exiting tunnel that takes up the top half of the pass. Printed by Hosford & Sons, NY. The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was organized in 1877 to build from near the Massachusetts-Vermont border, where state ownership ended, parallel to the Troy and Boston Railroad to near Johnsonville, New York and then west via Schenectady to Rotterdam Junction on what became the New York, West Shore, and Buffalo Railway in 1883. The line was being planned as a part of the Delaware and Hudson Company's system and as part of the Erie Railroad system via the Delaware and Hudson Company's Albany and Susquehanna Railroad. Date: 1884Country (if not USA): State: MassachusettsCity: BostonProvenance: