Timken Roller Bearing Company
The Timken Roller Bearing Company was one of the first to introduce
"oil waste journal" boxes. Henry Timken, a German immigrant, invented an improved bearing and founded the company in 1899. It was later renamed The Timken Company.[1]
Passenger cars
The Santa Fe was the first company to have roller bearing
passenger cars, much to the delight of their passengers, and the bottom line for the company. Timken commissioned the construction of a demonstration boxcar
in 1943 that was first displayed at the 1948 Chicago Rail Fair. It was a rolling advertisement for a new way of reducing friction - roller bearings (made by the Timken Roller Bearing Company). The car's trucks lacked the then common axle journal boxes, with the bearings mounted on the ends of the axles outside the wheels.
Locomotives
United States
The first
Northern Pacific Railroad
, the last railroad to try the specially-built locomotive, in 1933. It operated in regular service on the NP until retirement in 1957 and was subsequently scrapped.
United Kingdom
Some British steam locomotives also used roller bearings. The LMS Turbomotive was fitted with Timken roller bearings, and they were also retrofitted to some of the LMS Coronation class.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Henry Timken German-American Buseness Biographies
- ^ Stanier locomotives on steamindex.com
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