tractors could not be held responsible. However, a dispute arose, 

 and Moore & Richardson, despite every effort to collect from the 

 main contractor, lost $40,000 on the transaction. 



In 1865 Moore & Richardson became Robert Moore & Sons 

 Whether John G. Richardson died or retired is uncertain ; however, 

 he is last listed in the city directory for 1864. Efforts to verify the 

 date of his death were not successful, since the oldest death records 

 available for Newport, Kentucky, his place of residence, are for the 

 year 191 1. The new firm was composed of Robert Moore and his 

 sons, August, Arthur, and Hamilton. '^^ 



A contemporary account gives evidence of the difficulties under 

 which the new firm began operations. In a letter (June 29, 1865) 

 to his employer, the M. W. Baldwin Company, William P. Henszey 

 reported on a visit to the Cincinnati Locomotive Works. Henszey, 

 who in 1870 became a partner in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 

 was visiting other engine builders throughout the country. The 

 letter, preserved by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, reads in 

 part : 



Was at Moore and Richardsons, saw Mr. Moore also his son who is 

 the general manager. They are entirely closed on locomotive work and 

 have only about 1 2 men in their establishment. Their shop is about as 

 good an exposition of dirt & confusion as could well be. 



Henszey pictured the works in hard times, but rather overstated his 

 case in claiming that locomotive work had been completely dis- 

 continued, for the Cincinnati Locomotive W'Orks was advertising 

 for orders in the American Railway Times and the Railroad Record as 

 late as 1867 and 1868. It may well be that at the time of Henszey's 

 visit locomotive building had been temporarily suspended. 



The end of the war found the Cincinnati Locomotive Works in 

 a much weakened condition. Added to the losses on the monitors 

 was another loss of $20,000 resulting from an attempt to establish 

 a sales branch in New Orleans. Too, by the late i86o's the loco- 

 motive industry was becoming decidedly specialized as the machine 

 itself became more complex and sophisticated. By then larger 

 freight locomotives such as Moguls and Consolidations were being 



^s Information furnished by the late Robert L. Moore, a son of Hamihon Moore, 

 in an interview on December 21, 1959. 



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