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Storey (Tom) Drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co,'s Locomotive "Four Aces"
MS 860
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English
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Tom Storey's drawings of the Timken Roller Bearing Co.'s "Four Aces" locomotive
creator:
Storey, Tom
Identifier/Call Number: MS 860
Physical Description:
181 Sheets
181 drawings
Date (inclusive): Jul. 27, 1912-Dec. 1946
Date (inclusive): 1975-1984
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.
Physical Location: Big Four Building Map Case Drawer 62, Box 676
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Eileen Storey, 1989.
Arranged by drawing number.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Timken Roller Bearing CompanyTimken 1111 (Roller bearing locomotive)
Drawings