At the AK Steel Plant in Butler, PA, you can still find a variety of EMD switchers roaming around the plant. Some even still wear the Black and Orange paint of Armco, matching the colors of the Be... (more)
A very Rare Lima- Hamilton LS 1200 switcher works the Huge Armco steel works at Middletown Ohio in the summer of 1977 under smoke filled skies. Lima built Very few diesels from 1949-1951 be... (more)
One of Armco Steel's SW 1001's switches the plant in Butler, PA, along the B&LE main line.
Getting these units looked easy but took a lot of sitting and waiting as they ran up and down the private railroad that paralleled CSX here.
A mill crew moves empty coil cars from the B&LE interchange towards the rolling mills. Armco Steel B-84 was the only GP38-2 built by EMD without MU capabilities.
Armco Steel B-84 was the only GP38-2 built by EMD without MU capabilities. The elusive diesel was pulling a cut of steel coil cars to the B&LE injterchnage in Butler.
