The blacksmith's shop is large also. It has large forge fires and a heating 

 furnace. A Xasmyth steam hammer of 3500 pounds is used for drawing 

 out tire, frames, and axles. It deserves to be known that Moore & Richard- 

 son have been and still are large manufacturers of American tires. They 

 have used but four sets of imported tires on all the engines they have built, 

 having made the others in their own works. From what we can learn 

 at Cincinnati and on the roads using these tires, they have done well, — as 

 well as any other tires made in this country. These tires are hammered 

 throughout, and bent, welded and blocked to a good finish. 



The finishing shops are well supplied with tools, — some of English con- 

 struction and some built in Cincinnati. The large planing machine built 

 at the works, is, we believe, the largest in the West. It appears to be a good 

 tool, strong and well finished. The large lathe was also built upon the 

 spot and is a good piece of work. 



The Little Miami road is largely supplied with engines from these works. 

 The general construction of the passenger engines may be stated as follows : 

 Outside connected, slightly inclined cylinders, solid frame, suspended or 

 stationary link motion. Dimensions generally as follows: 14 inch cylinders; 

 20 inch stroke; 5 feet or 5}.2 feet wheels. Steamports 14 inches by i^ie 

 inches. Boiler 40 inch shell, containing 122 copper tubes, 2 inches in 

 diameter and 10 feet long. Fire-grate 4 feet long and 38 inches wide. 

 Running generally with 2% inch exhaust nozzles. On most of the passenger 

 engines on the Little Miami road, the lead on steam port is };s inch (constant 

 on all the notches) lead on exhaust Yi inch; — the outside lap being % inches 

 and tlie inside lap '^^ inch. 



These engines are doing remarkably good service on the Little Miami 

 road. The ruling grades of that road are said to be 45 feet, but whether 

 this is over-estimated 01 not, these engines are drawing trains daily of ;?/«f 

 eight wheel cars, passenger and baggage. Trains of this size are drawn from 

 Cincinnati to Loveland's, the latter being the commencement of the Hills- 

 boro' road. The train leaves three cars here and goes on with six cars. It is 

 to be remembered that these engines weight but about 42,000 pounds, and 

 as they make abundance of steam with 2% inch nozzles and generally make 

 25 miles per hour over the grades, the performance must be admitted to be 

 good. One of the same class of engines, with 5 feet wheel has taken 32 eight 

 wheel loaded freight cars over what is rated as a forty feet grade. The 

 engine was said to have carried but 120 pounds of steam, but that is impos- 

 sible or else the grade is overrated. Still, it was a great feat, with so light an 

 engine, to get such a load over the grade at all, the grade being a long one. 

 A freight engine lately built by Moore & Richardson, for the Little 

 Miami road, and called the "Wm. McCammon," has performed quite 



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