Well perfect, I like Timken, and the SP Lines lettering the best. Have a lot of friends at and history with Timken, both the bearing company and the as of 2014 separate Timken Steel Company (for those not ware of the split).
True story, at the Timken Gambrinus Plant in one of their large meeting rooms is a giant mural with the 4 Aces. I have a picture of it somewhere. The Timken people were really excited model railroaders knew and cared about that thing. I couldn't ever get a picture of anything onsite at Timken, but they let me photograph it.
Hot Water posted:TexasSP posted:Dave Olson posted:4458 and 4459 will have whistle steam with the whistle in the rear. The dynamo steam in the CAD was my error.
The deco for these two engines were based on the builder's photos which have the white walls. There's always debate on white walls vs. no white walls. Debate meaning people wanting them or not. Fortunately, a little black paint in pretty easy!
Thanks for the correction. I can handle the white walls, paint is easy. I am debating between a GS4 or GS5.
On the tender trucks, is the Timken or SKF wording going to be visible like on others? Assuming that was correct for these trucks?
The trailing truck journals as well as the three axle Buckeye tender truck journals should all display either the "Timken" or the "SKF" lettering on the end of the roller bearing cover. Also, those big oil lubrication cellar type journal boxes, typical of all the SP 4-8-4s would NOT be present.
For what it's worth, SP 4449 has had the engine truck, the trailing truck, and all the tender & auxiliary tender truck axles up-graded to cartridge type roller bearings, however all the original journal box covers have been left in place in order to present a more "original" appearance.
Very cool to know that.
