BLE 878 and CN 5336 thunder west through Ivanhoe on a sunny evening.

A Bessemer SD38-2 and a CN zebra striped SD40-2W are just out of Kirk Yard and about to pass under Route 12. They're in charge of train L516, bound for Griffith Yard. A good portion of the train w... (more)

Enroute to the AMP Shops in Dansville, Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38 #862 sits in CSX's Goodman Street Yard in Rochester. CSX local B796 has a caboose on the west end and gets ready to shove out of th... (more)

B&LE 903 pulls empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill after dumping Taconite at the Duluth docks, and back to the Mesabi Iron Range for another trainload.

A rare sight has maroon and orange lashed together in the form of B&LE 906 and DM&IR 215 handling switching duties on CN's Proctor Yard E-Lead. Occasionally a tunnel motor will stand in for the us... (more)

B&LE 904 lifts limestone loads out of Missabe Jct. as a taconite load awaits dumping at CN Dock 6 in Duluth. The limestone is bound for the Taconite plants of Minnesota's famed Mesabi Iron Range.

BLE 910 rolls through the rolling hills of Western Iowa on its way to Denison and Council Bluffs.

BLE 910 glides a CN steel local through Griffith, Indiana as it prepares to cross the diamond.

A Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38, still wearing DMIR paint, sits in CSX's Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY. The locomotive is enroute to American Motive Power in Dansville for work, and will be pic... (more)

Canadian National's Butler turn heads south through Branchton with an entirely Bessemer locomotive consist and only one car in tow. This train is operating on the old Bessemer and Lake Erie mainl... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC 867 is on the point as the crew backs the power set on to loaded iron ore cars and builds the southbound train in the Conneaut Harbor.

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A pair of Bessemer tunnel motors lead the MRF north into Iron Junction.

Storms were on the way, but the sun was shining bright as BLE 867 screamed through town on a southbound ore train, with help from CN 5291 and fellow Bessemer 905.

After picking up loaded scrap cars in the yard at Shenango, BLE 867 heads for AK Steel in Butler passing the BLE searchlights at Scott Rd.

BLE 867, CN 5291 and BLE 905 await permission to proceed south at Meadville, as the sun makes a nice appearance during a break between the storms.

KY Junction Bessemer and Lake Erie R.R. Greenville, PA

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC #867 leads a southbound ore train as it comes around the bend and passes the searchlight signals at the MD South Control Point.

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The power set for the southbound Bessemer loaded ore train backs on to the first cut of cars and prepares to build the rest of its train in the Conneaut Harbor.

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BLE 904 heads the southbound 1600 Proctor Road Switch south out of town and down the hill towards Duluth for a fresh load of limestone.

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC #867 leads the southbound ore train past the Hartstown swamp. A family of geese rush into the water after narrowly avoiding the train while walking across the tracks. <... (more)

A pair of BLE motors roar through the tiny unincorporated community of Brimson, MN as they take the U737 BFT train towards Two Harbors.

BLE 867 leads a southbound ore train as they depart the harbor in Conneaut and pass under the Norfolk Southern Lake Erie District bridge.

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BLE 867 SD38AC
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The Bessemer & Lake Erie builds the southbound iron ore train at the harbor in Conneaut, Ohio. The railroad passes through a "tunnel" alongside Conneaut Creek to get under the CSX mainline.
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With three different EMD locomotives on the point, a southbound Bessemer & Lake Erie iron ore train roars as it crosses over the high line trestle in Osgood, Pennsylvania.

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Bessemer & Lake Erie 867 leads a southbound loaded iron ore train past the searchlights at RX in Albion, PA.

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BLE 867 SD38AC
CN 5346 SD40-2W
BLE 905 SD40T-3

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC 867 leads southbound iron ore as it passes by the Master Feed & Grain farm supply store in Conneautville.

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BLE 867 SD38AC
CN 5346 SD40-2W
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Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC 867 leads southbound iron ore as it passes under the classic signal cantilever at KY Junction, where the high and low line through Greenville come together.

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With both BLE 867 and 905 on the train, a Bessemer & Lake Erie (CN) loaded iron ore train heads south past fields of young corn plants in rural western Pennsylvania.

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A rare afternoon NB train of empty ore hoppers head for the harbor in Conneaut as three different EMD units roar through Conneautville.

With both BLE 867 and 905 on the train, a Bessemer & Lake Erie (CN) loaded iron ore train has departed the harbor in Conneaut and crossed into Pennsylvania, passing by farms in the rural countrysi... (more)