. Bulletin - United States National Museum . Figure 49.—The handsome symmetry of the Qjteen Citv is a tribute to Whetstonesskill as a designer. While the road for which this machine was built cannot bedetermined, the Railroad Record, on July 10, 1856, noted the publication of thislithograph. 110. \ r, i - I ti I CINCINNATI. Figure 50.—Business Card of Niles & Co., about 1855. machines with which they were most famihar, resorting to western-bailt machines only if in immediate need of additional as naturally, the eastern banker preferred to see orders for loco-motives stay in New Engl
. Bulletin - United States National Museum . Figure 49.—The handsome symmetry of the Qjteen Citv is a tribute to Whetstonesskill as a designer. While the road for which this machine was built cannot bedetermined, the Railroad Record, on July 10, 1856, noted the publication of thislithograph. 110. \ r, i - I ti I CINCINNATI. Figure 50.—Business Card of Niles & Co., about 1855. machines with which they were most famihar, resorting to western-bailt machines only if in immediate need of additional as naturally, the eastern banker preferred to see orders for loco-motives stay in New England, because he either had an interest inone of the locomotive works or simply desired to promote the localeconomy. The Railroad Record summarized the problem: the majority of engineers and superintendents upon our western roads,are Eastern men, and come amongst us with Eastern prejudices, beingunable to comprehend how machinery can be manufactured in a countrywhere, but a short time since, the Indian roamed untrammelled in hisnative forests. ^^ Some months later, the same journal commented more heatedly: Objection has been made to our Western locomotives—mostly byEastern men. . that they have not th^ finish of the Eastern shopwork. This may have been the case
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