Looking like a chintzy plastic model train, ATI Metals RX-500 01 pulls a single gondola (NW 190979) westbound to their Flat Rolled facility in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. Built by Republic Loc... (more)

A local couple walks on and completely ignores the GE 65tonner pulling ingots from the upper plant to the lower plant with a shy conductor covering his face. These moves will be ending in the futu... (more)

Shuffling between two mills, Allegheny Ludlum critters of various sizes stay busy.

ATI Allegheny Ludlum 03 switches hot ingots at the Brackenridge plant.

Just after 8am, three Allegheny Ludlum RELCO switchers - numbers 03, 02, and 01 - followed one another west from the Natrona Plant to the Brackenridge Plant, where they began a variety of switchin... (more)

As Norfolk Southern's 16N heads east during some light snow flurries, a GE 70 tonner shuttles some thimble cars and some gondolas with coil trims up to the Natrona plant. A Republic RX-500 brings ... (more)

A fleet of new Republic built two axle switchers have sidelined Allegheny Ludlum's fleet of GE center cabs. Here the 23 rests outside of the engine shop while ATI's new addition takes shape in the... (more)

Derelict and Abandoned. The former Delaware & Hudson Colonie Diesel Shops were once the haunts of the famous D&H Sharks, PAs, and countless Alcos. By 1998, this lone (and Lilliputi... (more)

One of the new AC traction engines at the Brackenridge Works hustles its way to the soaking pits with a few silicon ingots in tow. A 1/15 pan

Race? No, the two critters are moving in opposite directions.

The afternoon shift begins. Thanks to the fine article in August 2011 RAILPACE by Lee Gregory, Dave Baer, Ed Horn, & Adam Stuebgen.

Progress marches on! This critter is one of two recent arrivals to ATI. The Republic RX-500 is set to replace the aging GE switchers serving the ATI stainless steel plants. AC traction virtuall... (more)

The afternoon shift at ATI has three critters running along Blue Ridge Ave. in Natrona Heights. Here slag cars are on the move. Allegheny Ludlum's two facilities are stainless steel mills.

Allegheny Ludlum, after getting over 60 yrs of work out of the GE 44 tonners, is gettting new industrial switchers from Republic Locomotive. The days of the old GE's are numbered. Extra weight (ab... (more)