Atlantic City & Shore RR Payment Voucher PRSL Trackage 1937 Railroad Document
$ 6.86
Description
Atlantic City & Shore RR Payment Voucher PRSL Trackage 1937 Railroad Document. The voucher is endorsed by the signatures of Auditor J.M. Campbell and General Superintendent A.J. Purinton. Condition is consistent with storage in a filed corporate ledger, showing a vertical fold line, slight edge wear, light foxing, and a minor tear at the top right corner. This document is an original railroad payment voucher dated August 1937, issued by the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company to the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) for trackage rights and facility rentals. Designated as Voucher No. 8090, it records a payment amounting to $2,784.99, authorized by check number 5870 drawn on the Ventnor City National Bank, located in Ventnor City, New Jersey. The payment was completed on September 14, 1937. The voucher is a multipart form comprising the main payment voucher and the accompanying remittance advice from the PRSL Treasurer’s Office, which is stamped as received on September 16, 1937. The payment calculation is based on detailed car-mileage figures, totaling 35,935.343 car miles at a rate of 7.75 cents per mile. The mileage is divided between two lines: the Newfield Branch, accounting for 17,482.543 miles, and the Somers Point Branch, accounting for 18,452.800 miles. These figures pertain to operations carried out on the segments between Meadows Tower and Somers Point. This voucher represents a historical example of railroad corporate accounting and financial transactions during the late 1930s, illustrating the operational and fiscal relationships between South Jersey’s electric interurban railroads and larger steam railroad companies amid the economic conditions of the Great Depression. The document features both pre-printed text and manually typed entries including payee information and the relevant accounting period. Several rubber stamps indicate dates and document numbers, while pencil-written annotations detail calculations and authorizations pertinent to the transaction. The reverse side of the form includes a printed list of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) accounting classifications, indicating its function within standardized railroad financial recordkeeping practices. The voucher is endorsed by the signatures of Auditor J.M. Campbell and General Superintendent A.J. Purinton. Condition is consistent with storage in a filed corporate ledger, showing a vertical fold line, slight edge wear, light foxing, and a minor tear at the top right corner.
