Appendix 5 



In 1856 the Railroad Advocate published the following article com- 

 paring the performances of passenger engines operated by the 

 Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad. The line's Niles- 

 built locomotive, the S. Gebhart, made an impressive showing. 



The equipment of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton road com- 

 prises engines from the best builders of the country. Rogers, the Taunton 

 Co., and fiinkley, besides two Cincinnati firms, have severally turned out 

 their best samples of work, upon the road under notice. The Taunton 

 Co. ha\^e as good engines on the road as they ever built, and refer to them 

 as such when negotiating with new roads in that neighborhood. Hinkley 

 has but one engine on the road, the "L'fiommedieu," — but it was originally 

 named for himself — the "Hinkley," — and was turned out as his best speci- 

 men of design and workmanship. It is the engine which has made the 60 

 miles of the Hamilton and Dayton road in something less than 75 minutes,^ 

 taking a good train over a 26 feet grade. 



We allude to these particulars as facts merely, and in order to give just 

 credit to a Cincinnati-built engine, — the "S. Gebhart,'' — the only one on 

 the road from Xiles & Co's. shops. 



The following comparison will show the service and expenses of all the 

 principal passenger engines in use on the road, during the year 1855. [See 

 table on p. 146.] 



It will be seen that the "S. Gebhart" — the Niles' engine — came within 

 but 35 miles of reaching the highest mileage of any engine on the road, — 

 that its repairs hardly exceeded the average cost for that of all the others, — 

 and that it was thirty-six per cent, more economical of fuel than any 

 other engine run, — and from fifty to one hundred and fifty per cent, more 

 economical of fuel than several of the other engines named ! 



When we visited Cincinnati, last winter, we were struck with the 

 liberal design, excellent workmanship, and especially, the exact mode of 

 fitting the work together in the "setting-up-shop." We had not expected 

 to see so decided an improvement on the work turned out in Cincinnati 

 only two or three years before. 



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