Storey (Tom) Drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co,'s Locomotive "Four Aces", Jul. 27, 1912-Dec. 1946, 1975-1984

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Summary

Title:
Tom Storey's drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co.'s "Four Aces" locomotive
Dates:
Jul. 27, 1912-Dec. 1946, 1975-1984
Creators:
Storey, Tom
Abstract:
Includes steam locomotive enthusiast Tom Storey's collection of 181 mylar tracings of drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Company's 4-8-4 locomotive No. 1111 (also called "Four Aces"). These tracings, producedd by Mr. Storey in preparation of constructing a working model of the locomotive, were created using drawing prints from the collection of Roy Johnston, whose Timken model is on display at the Timken Museum in Canton, Ohio.
Extent:
181 Sheets 181 drawings
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Drawing number], Tom Storey Drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co.,'s Locomotive "Four Aces", MS 860, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

These mylar tracings were created by Tom Storey using prints from the drawing collection of Roy Johnston, whose Timken model is on display at the Timken Museum in Canton, Ohio.

Biographical / historical:

Tom Storey, whose father was a fireman for the Northern Pacific railroad, grew up fascinated by steam locomotives and spent many hours as a child making drawings of steam engines. This interest continued into adulthood and when he retired from Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company in the 1970s, he set out to construct a working model of the Timken locomotive 1111 (also known as "Four Aces")he had seen as a boy. He began to gather and trace the drawings in this collection in 1975. He met fellow Timken model enthusiast Roy Johnston and based many of his mylar tracings on his prints. Tom died in 1984, and his family completed the few unfinished tracings so they could be used by modellers to build "Four Aces".

The Timken "Four Aces" steam locomotive was created and assembled by the American Locomotive Company in 1930 as a demonstration unit for Timken Roller Bearing's new kind of roller bearing. Several railroads, including the New York Central, the Chesapeake & Ohio,the New Haven, and the Pennsylvania Railroad used "Four Aces" to power trains on freight and passenger runs. Its sealed roller bearings performed very well compared to locomotives assembled with plain roller bearings. In August 1931, the locomotive went to Northern Pacific, which purchased it in Febrary 1933. It was retired in August 1957.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Eileen Storey, 1989.
Arrangement:

Arranged by drawing number.

Physical location:
Big Four Building Map Case Drawer 62, Box 676
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
CSRM Library Archives staff
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-04-07 19:25:35 +0000 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Drawing number], Tom Storey Drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co.,'s Locomotive "Four Aces", MS 860, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073
Library.CSRM@parks.ca.gov
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