. Bulletin - United States National Museum . part in local business. Jonathan lived untilMarch i, 1878, his brother James until August 8, i88i.^i A fine example of Niles & Company locomotives survived as lateas 1942. This was the Sabine, built in 1857 for the New Orleans,Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad, later part of the SouthernPacific system. In 1897 the engine was sold to a sugar refinery inNew Iberia, Louisiana, for use as a switcher. After standing idlefor some years, the Sabine was repurchased in 1923 by the SouthernPacific for display at Lafayette, Louisiana, where it quietly repo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum . part in local business. Jonathan lived untilMarch i, 1878, his brother James until August 8, i88i.^i A fine example of Niles & Company locomotives survived as lateas 1942. This was the Sabine, built in 1857 for the New Orleans,Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad, later part of the SouthernPacific system. In 1897 the engine was sold to a sugar refinery inNew Iberia, Louisiana, for use as a switcher. After standing idlefor some years, the Sabine was repurchased in 1923 by the SouthernPacific for display at Lafayette, Louisiana, where it quietly reposedfor 19 years as a monument not only to early railroading but alsoto the long-silent Cincinnati locomotive shops. On October 5,1942, the Sabine was junked in a public ceremony to promotepopular support of a local wartime scrap drive. Il From obituaries of the brothers (copies suppUed by the Connecticut HistoricalSociety). These accounts make no mention of either brothers birthplace orreason for retiring to Hartford. LOCOMOTIVE NILES & CO., CONGHKSS STKliKT, , BIITLD 10 onlci- of any nquirod fize ;\iv; j)ri;pan:U lo execute hII oriJeis intlieir line wiUi |)ronii]lness. Orilcrs soliciud Icr iron nnd Brass CaoUnps. Flueand Cylirriler Boilers, Tyres, Tvrc , Planing .Ma-chines, and other tools, Shallin^, &c & l:t l^5o 6iti. Figure 54.^—Advertisements of Niles& Company appearing in railroadjournals during the i85os. NILES & (; o., tI!VCIIVIVATI, OHIO, MAN! KACTlRE TO ORDKR Locomotive Engines & Tenders, Of any arrangement or weight required, .nnd which, forEconomy, Durability, and Kfficiency, arw olTered in com-parison witli any work produced in the couiitrj-,ALSO, GENKRAL MACHINE AND FOUNDRY WORK Cincinnati, Nov. 18, 1854. 116 Chapter 5 The CovingtonLocomotive Works Covington, Kentucky, located just across the Ohio River fromCincinnati, is so closely associated with the larger city that an ac-count of the Covington Locom
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