Vintage Bearings

the timken roller bearing company of canton, ohio, manufactured bearings for locomotives in the middle of the last century.

a 1941 ad in the saturday evening post pictured a streamlined locomotive behind a smiling mother holding her baby with the slogan "miles of smiles on timken bearings."

the company made a wide range of bearings from microsopic in size to bearings large enough for a person to stand in, according to a company history.

today the company is involved in high-speed trains and aerospace.

this vintage bearing and wheel assembly is part of an old rail car frozen in time on rusty tracks at the old canary station of the central pacific railroad.