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Reply to "Dave GS-5 question bearing types"

Hot Water posted:
Now, hope everyone remembers that Southern Pacific 4-8-4s did NOT have white tires & wheel rims! Only builder photos of a particular road number, seemed to have such painting "details", and the locomotives did NOT appear in service that way.

Apparently some of them had white tires and rims, if even for a short time period. Here's a Daylight GS, no. 4411, and its engineer, preparing to head out on its maiden run in 1937, and some others. The 4th shot shows grime on the engine's boiler, so clearly it was in operation with whitewalls. The bottom shot may be a builder's photo, not sure.

GS-5 No. 4458 was equipped with Timken roller bearings.

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