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Armco Steel Lima-Hamilton switcher 709 is being restored to service at the Whitewater Valley Railroad in Connersville, Ind. The locomotive is seen here in April 2007.
Photo by M.T.Burkhart.
By M.T.Burkhart
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. – The Whitewater Valley Railroad is restoring a rare diesel switcher, Armco Steel Lima-Hamilton Corp. 709.
The LS-1000 switcher was built in1950 and was assigned to Armco’s Hamilton, Ohio, works, where it hauled molten steel between two plants on a 12-mile Baltimore & Ohio branch, according to the tourist railroad. It later served as an in-plant switcher at Armco’s Middletown Works carrying the number E-137.