CONNERSVILLE, Ind. — The Whitewater Valley Railroad, a museum and heritage railway in Connersville, has debuted restored 1949 Lima-Hamilton LS1000 switcher in excursion service.
The locomotive spent its career at Armco Steel Corp.’s Middletown and Miami Works before being donated to the museum by Armco in 1987. It operated at the Whitewater Valley until 1989, when it was determined it would need significant restoration work. With that work complete, the locomotive made its operating debut on a July 31 private charter, then made its public debut last weekend, Aug. 3-4, in an all-Lima weekend that also featured the museum’s former Cincinnati Union Terminal LS750 No. 25.
The museum runs a full schedule, mostly on weekends, the remainder of the year. More information is available in this Trains.com profile and at the Whitewater Valley website.
