the plant in good order. ^'^ J. C. Finck was to be the superintendent. 

 He was reported to have been with Moore & Richardson in the 

 same capacity. 



Wolff called the company the Kentucky Locomotive and Machine 

 Works (not to be confused with the Kentucky Locomotive Works 

 of Louisville, which operated a few years earlier). Two locomotives 

 were built for the Clovington and Lexington Railroad in June and 

 September 1857. An advertisement for the Works was run as late 

 as December 4, 1 858, in the Covington Journal, but in all probability 

 the plant closed at about this time, unable to survive the Panic of 

 1857 or eclipse the reputation of its rivals across the river. 



^''^ Rail road Advocate (February 14 and 28, 1857), vol. 3. 



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