Beach boy, by way of Lima
Al Jardine, left, with brother Neal and his parents in Lima.
Courtesy Lou Thouvenin family
The Lima News file
Courtesy Eric Hirsimaki’s “Lima: the History.”
Don Jardine, photographed in 1949.
Courtesy Eric Hirsimaki’s “Lima: the History.”
Don Jardine worked for a time as the photographer at Lima Locomotive Works.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Al Jardine, photographed in 2019.
Glenn Francis | Pacific Pro Digital Photography
The Beach Boys included Al Jardine, thanks his father moving the family to California. He was a football teammate of Brian Wilson.
The Lima News file
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This feature is a cooperative effort between the newspaper and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
RailNews
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.