AP-2™ Bearing (No. 8178)
Designed based on the AP Bearing, besides carrying heavier loads and reduced bearing weight, this bearing's shorter journal reduces axle flexure which means less fretting wear between the bearing components.

HDL™ Seal (No. 8133)
This close clearance designed seal never touches the mating surface. Benefits are lower operating temperature, longer bearing life, more efficient operation, fewer repairs, less maintenance and downtime and lower operating costs.

NT™ Seal
An improved version of our original two-lip design, this seal costs no more, while providing lower torque and operating temperature.

Axle-Saver Seal Wear Ring™ (No. 8133)
Allows customers who do not wish to pay for all the associated benefits of the Timken HDL seal to also avoid costly axle plating charges. It provides a more rigid interface between the seal wear ring and axle, and between the seal wear ring and cone face, thereby greatly reducing the rate of fretting wear.

Performance Plus™ Bearing
A reconditioned bearing assembly that offers exceptional value. Benefits are: eliminates axle grooving, eliminates false setouts, eliminates loose backing rings, increases bearing reliability, increases bearing life.

Alloy Steel
Timken alloy steel is used in numerous rail applications, from steel bars forged into wheels to high-performing grades for piston pins and cylinder liners. The industry relies on special grades of Timken Parapremium™ steel for axle applications.

Special manufacturing procedures at Faircrest (where most all rail steel is produced) provides the modified Parapremium grades with the low nitrogen chemical composition for some rail applications. We produce steel for the following rail applications: bearings into rail, cushioning units, axles, rail car wheels, piston pins and cylinder liners in locomotives.

TracGlide - Intelligent Top-of-Rail Lubrication System
Without friction, braking systems could not bring trains to a stop. But for the most part, rails search for ways to manage friction. Any new product able to manage friction has the potential to generate huge energy savings and lengthen the life of locomotives, freight cars and tracks. The TracGlide system is just such a product.