grooves placed for the purpose of collecting and providing a mechanism for providing additional lubrication for extending the oil wetted envelope available for supporting the truck axle journal in the axial direction application_number US 17893705 A description referring now to the drawings in greater detail and to fig2 and 5 for now there is shown a first embodiment of the railway locomotive traction motor friction support or sleeve bearing of the invention and indicated generally by reference numeral 30 in this first embodiment the invention is embodied in a friction support bearing that does not employ finger grooves flinger grooves mount finger rings which when employed help to redistribute the oil back to the oil reservoir and reduce oil loss as disclosed in u s patent no 3 905 659 the sleeve bearing 30 is provided with a conventional central wick window 12 as explained herein above with regard to fig1 and 4 and in addition at least two supplemental or auxiliary wicks one wick 32 at the outboard end and one wick 34 at the inboard end the supplemental wicks 32 34 are oriented at 6 00 o 39 clock when viewing fig2 the outboard wick 32 is combined with the currently used flange wick 16 also explained above with reference to the prior art bearing of fig1 and 4 the wicks 32 34 are lubricated via lateral flow oil collection grooves 36 38 respectively which are used as in the conventional manner for collecting oil as explained in u s patent no 4 229 056.