^ ROB^Itt MOOR£,^^^e2ES, ®« 



LOCOMOTlYECiil^D^ IVli^ 



Iron arij|^|&s-0aBtin^5^S^^^ Borgjngs, &;c. 



East Front Street, Cincinnaii, O. 



BAILBOAS AND STEAMBOAT MACHINEBY BEPAIILED. 



Figure 20. — Business Card of the Cincinnati Loco- 

 motive Works about 1865. (Courtesy Air. Robert L. 

 Moore.) 



and Dayton Railroad aboard a train more than likely powered by 

 an engine built in his foundry.*^" 



The Civil War brought about a sharp increase in the demand for 

 locomotives as railroad traffic compounded under the demands of 

 that struggle. The use of the railroads for military purposes, es- 

 pecially the U.S. Military Railroads, forced the Government to 

 purchase secondhand equipment and to press nearly every builder 

 for more engines. Moore claimed that because of this demand his 

 shop was worked to capacity. '^^ Jt is difficult to determine exactly 

 for which roads these machines were built, since at about this time 



"-An anonvmous writer of the early i86o's prepared a little volume called Trips 

 in the Life of a Locomotive Enguieer (New York: J. Bradburn, 1863) in which a chap- 

 ter entitled '"Forty-two Miles Per Hour" describes the D. IT. Des/iler, built by 

 Moore & Richardson in 1854 for the Little Miami Railroad. This account, 

 reprinted here as Appendix 2, not only presents a lively mechanical picture of 

 the engine but also conveys the feeling of wonder and pride in the art of mechnaical 

 technology as it had so rapidly advanced in that day. The trip described is with- 

 out doubt that from Xenia to Columbus. 



^^ MooRE, Autobiograpliicat Outlines, pp. 37-38. 



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