The Cincinnati builders deserve great credit for their hberal enterprise 

 and indomitable perseverance in working against all the difficulties in- 

 cident to a new business, — starting at the outset with inexperienced hands, 

 presumptuous designers, and uncertain materials, — but conquering these 

 circumstances, and rising in merit and reputation to deserve a patronage 

 limited only by the great demand for engines in the West. 



There are many excellent points in Messrs. Niles' engines — the heating 

 surface and boiler content, the very liberal width of steam passages (18)2 

 inch ports for a 15 inch cylinder) and the exact equality of admission, 

 lead, and expansion, attained by their peculiar suspension of the shifting- 

 link. The engines are original in design, but are not based on ultra ideas 

 of proportion or arrangement; while they also combine nearly every known 

 means for the perfect production and distribution of steam. [From the 

 Railroad Advocate (June 7, 1856), vol. 3, p. i.] 



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