NORFOLK SOUTHERN FOUR ACES ENGINE

I've heard it is referred to as "the bar code unit".

LOVE the bar code unit.  I MAY have taken the first ever photo of it.  At least it seems to be the first one that showed up anywhere on the internet.  It IS awfully hard to read.  In my opinion, the number spacing is just a little too close.

I've seen some clocks that use IIII as Roman Numeral 4.  Perhaps we could nickname that unit "Roamin' Four"

   "Eleven hundred eleven" or "Eleven eleven".

"Four Aces" works fine for me.  Last steam in mainline service on the WM was the "Four Aces" I-2 Decapod.

The most famous "Four Aces:"

Timken 1111, also called the Timken Four Aces, was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built in 1930 by American Locomotive Company (Alco) to serve as a demonstration unit for new roller bearings produced by the Timken Roller Bearing Company. It was the first locomotive built with all sealed roller bearings rather than the friction bearings or a mix of the two types.

looks ok to me to read.dont know what all the fuss is about.....jim

Well, it does this to most people:

Lighten up Mixerman - you know like when someone calls concrete "cement" or when they want you to wait  while it "dries."