. Bulletin - United States National Museum . as they moved over tempo-rary tracks to the public landing and an awaiting steamer. TheCincinnati Gazette of June 12, 1852, vividly described the scene: Look out for the locomotive when the bell rings; ought to be placardedon the public landing, for we certainly saw a locomotive steaming at agood rate from Broadway to Main yesterday morning. A temporarywooden track had been laid down and a new sixteen ton locomotive, ^^ Edwin Price reminiscences. ^^ Some confusion exists as to the precise date of the lease of the Harkness foundryby Moore & Richardso
. Bulletin - United States National Museum . as they moved over tempo-rary tracks to the public landing and an awaiting steamer. TheCincinnati Gazette of June 12, 1852, vividly described the scene: Look out for the locomotive when the bell rings; ought to be placardedon the public landing, for we certainly saw a locomotive steaming at agood rate from Broadway to Main yesterday morning. A temporarywooden track had been laid down and a new sixteen ton locomotive, ^^ Edwin Price reminiscences. ^^ Some confusion exists as to the precise date of the lease of the Harkness foundryby Moore & Richardson. Moore states in his autobiography that he leased theplant in 1852 (pp. 40, 49). The annual reports of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, andDayton Railroad refer to Harkness, Moore & Company as late as June 1853, andthe Little Miami Railroad reports first refer to Moore & Richardson in May is therefore assumed that William Harkness retired from the firm in the springof 1853 and that Moore brought Richardson in as a partner. 31. s - V -* m o • -^ o J 1- a o G -«-J _ro tn f^ <2 o ^-^H V2 r-i CO ^ CO 2 ^ C/3 z ^^ - H LO J (X) CO 3 m ^ ^ •— bT _o J <- <* 0 O ^ O 03 O ?g <U oi X a w M d H C/2 01 -o ^^ tfl o o Si u 73 3 03 bp P^ t^ 32 built by Harkness, Moore & Co., for the Memphis Railway [Memphisand Charleston Railroad], was thus working its own passage to thelanding of the steamer Memphis. (Some years later a permanent track was laid along Front Street tothe Little Miami Railroad making delivery of engines to connectinglines more ^) On June 22 the Gazette noted that locomotive number 2 hadarrived at Memphis aboard the steamer of that name. The firstengine for that road, also from Harkness, Moore & Cb., was lostearlier when the steamer Chickasaw sank. In April 1853 Moore & Richardson reported 280 employees with aweekly payroll of $2,200.^6 j^ May 1854 the firm stated that asmany as 300 were einployed when the shop was in full productionand that it h
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