late 1800s - Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co - Cincinnati Ohio railroad bus ticket

The Ohio and Mississippi Railway (O&M) was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio and East St. Louis, Illinois from 1857 to 1893. It merged in 1893 with the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway and is now part of CSX Transportation.

Items from the O&M are seldom found, but I offer for auction a ticket; while undated, it is from the late 1800s. The ticket was for transportation of one passenger with his/her normal luggage from the O&M passenger depot to a hotel or steamship line; it was issued through the Cincinnati Railroad Omnibus Company, which provided surface transportation at that time for the various Cincinnati railroads. The transport was likely by some form of street trolley, probably horse-drawn, or a horse-pulled carriage.

The ticket measures appx 4 x 2 1/2 inches and is printed on a very thin paperstock. For something well over 100 years old, it is in very good condition. There are no markings or writing, no spills or smears, no rips or tears. There are conductor punch-holes over the railroad name and the class of transportation.  

You could look a long time and never find another one of these. A great collectible for the Cincinnati or Ohio railfan.