Rome Daily Sentinel - May 20, 1873 Pg. 3:3
The Railroad Shops.
Each department of the railroad shops is well stocked with work in anticipation of the summer campaign, and the men are as busy as bees. In the machine shop several locomotives, are partially dismantled, and one new one the John T. Denny, will be ready for trial some day this week. The Denny's cylinders are 15x22 inches, driving wheels 5 feet, and she will be used as a freight engine. Her number is 41, and she is the thirteenth new one built at the Rome shops, commencing with the Oswego, which came out of the shop July 15th, 1864. The boiler of the fourteenth new one has been commenced. In the carpenter shop one new baggage car is well under way, and work is progressing on some old ones. Fifty of the one hundred freight cars ordered have already been built, and work is being pushed on the remainder. In the paint shop the drawing-room cars St. Lawrence and Ontario are being repainted a dark color, which, with the contrasting yellow, makes them quite a showy as any seen. The interior of each is being remodeled, and when put on the road again, the lovers of comfortable railway travel will all be pleased with the changes made. In the blacksmith shop each individual Vulcan is doing his very best to advance the prosperity of the road, and the quality of the work turned out would please any one competent to judge.