Products and Services

Customized Journal Lubricating Pad Manufacturing and Product Support

Pads built to fit your equipment

Given the diversity of plain bearing locomotive cellar and journal box dimensions, we can’t use a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, our cotton lubricating pads are custom designed to maximize surface area contact and minimize premature wear for each piece of equipment. We also help design pads and restraints to fit special applications.

Installation and System Development

We also help customers design and install lubricating pads to accommodate special applications. These include designs to accommodate oil feeds to driver cellars, twill tape loops to secure pads against rolling, and sizing to fit custom cellar shapes.

Cotton waste for oil cups and small cellars

Mixed sizes of fine undyed, natural cotton waste for oil cups and small cellars.

Animals from genuine pad trimmings and test runs

If you don’t have a steam locomotive or rolling stock but still want a piece of the action, you can order a genuine journal pad animal. We use the same high quality tufted cotton to make sheep, goats, rams, bison, llamas, and now woolly mammoths!