Appendix i 



The shops and locomotives of the Cincinnati Locomotive Works 

 (Moore & Richardson) are described in tliese two 1856 accounts 

 from tlie Railroad Advocate. 



CINCINNATI LOCOMOTIVE WORKS 



The works of Messrs. Moore & Ricliardson, known under the above title, 

 have been devoted to the manufacture of locomotives since 1846, in which 

 year they turned out the first one built in Ohio. The number of these 

 engines built at the works since that time is over 120. In amount of 

 business, and in the success of its manufactures, this establishment stands 

 A I . It is well enough to state some particulars of its extent and capacity, 

 after which we may add something touching the details and performance 

 of the locomotives built here. 



The buildings and yard room occupy about a city square. The shops 

 are somewhat detached, so that to follow out the feet and inches of every 

 wall would be a little tedious. It is enough to say that the premises can 

 comfortably accommodate 300 men in full employment. 



The foundry is very large, being designed for casting heavy jobs of 

 steamboat and rolling mill work, if required. It has two large air furnaces 

 and two cupolas, — capable together of melting 20 tons daily. The cranes 

 are very heavy, — the heaviest lift they ever had was si.x tons, but they 

 can carry a greater load than that. The iron used for wheels and loco- 

 motive work is mostly Hanging Rock. The truck wheels cast from this 

 iron are very strong; we saw some which it had been found impossible 

 for one man to break with a heavy sledge. The chill is about % inch 

 deep and its line of mixture with the soft iron is very sharply defined, — ■ 

 that is, the chill does not extend back into the wheel in feathery or brush 

 like veins. It is a question as to which chill is the best. The wheels cast 

 here are cooled by Murphy's Patent Process, as lately described in the 



AoVOC'iiTE. 



The boiler shop is large and well supplied with tools. Cincinnati iron 

 and Pittsburgh copper are used, — the latter for tubes. 



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