The Two Harbors loads speed by with steaming hot taconite pellets through Rollins with a fallen flag leader shining on point.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Number 905 shoves the rear of the AK Turn through Butler PA.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Number 867 brings the AK Turn into Butler PA.
Western Pennsylvania holds the gem that is the former Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad. These two BLE EMDs are the last two orange motors running on their former home rails. On this day they are ha... (more)
BLE 909 leads a quartet of SD40s with Minntac loads into Biwabik where they will hold the main line while awaiting the arrival of the empties headed west from Two Harbors.
BLE 909 leads a quartet of SD40s with hot taconite loads in tow through Hoyt Lakes and bound for Two Harbors.
Excitement turned to disappointment when Engineer Schultz and crew, instead of heading down Proctor Hill in great light with taconite loads, instead cut the power off and went to grab empties for ... (more)
Bessemer & Lake Erie 905, 866, and 901 leads the ore train south across the huge bridge over the Allegheny River at Harmar Township, Pennsylvania.
Soaring high above Harmar Township, PA, the southbound Bessemer and Lake Erie ore train from Conneaut crosses the massive bridge over the Allegheny River as it nears North Bessemer. The crew will... (more)
Can you find the Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC #867? The Conneaut, Ohio, rail yard and dock area is still active as seen here, with the BLE #867 idling by the yard office (in front of the silos to t... (more)
Due to its inaccessibility, this hill is rarely shot but it is incredibly impressive. One of the few remaining orange BLE units holds back 145 fresh loads of taconite as they drop from the Prindle... (more)
Only one of few B&LE locomotives remaining in the B&LE orange paint leads a southbound Taconite train with fresh steaming pellets, bound for the docks at Two Harbors.
Today's Byron Hill shover power is a classic pair of EMDs, with BLE 910 quite a ways from home. Typically a mainstay in Pennsylvania, the 910 spent a few weeks in Wisconsin to serve on this ass... (more)
Imagine it, I was in college getting away for a short trip to catch the exotic "foreign" roads and didn't even realize they had any of these, dinosaurs even in those days, and one comes ... (more)
A pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie F7’s has left its train and are off to pick up more loaded hoppers at Liggett, Pennsylvania. With its 4:00 call time, the Kaylor branch local, one of the last regu... (more)
The Bessemer & Lake Erie dieselized its road power with 28 F7A’s, 26 F7B’s, and a variety of six-axle power. The six-axle power won favor, and no more four-axle road power was ever added to th... (more)
The daily afternoon southbound train headed for North Bessemer Yard and interchange with the Union Railroad is lead by a ratty looking CN unit. Sure do miss the B&LE orange and black locomotives.
BLE 866 switches Joliet Yard on a nice afternoon.
Empty tac cars make their way east behind a recently repainted BLE 900
Bessemer Tuinnel motor 910 and SD38-2 878 lead a pulldown job on the west end of Kirk Yard. What a great looking duo!
BLE 839, 830 and SD7 803 pose for a portrait at their Albion, Pa. engine facility in May 1981. Their simplified scheme is virtually identical to Milwaukee Roads SD7 scheme dating back to 1952 or s... (more)
BLE EMD F7(A) sitting at Kaylor, PA which was the last remaining portion of the Western Allegheny Railroad. A Bob Yanosey, from my Collection.
A quartet of EMD SD40s lead this empty taconite train west through Biwabik before returning to Minntac for a fresh load of pellets bound for Two Harbors.
The BLE 878 is passing over Southfield Road as they head towards Flat Rock on the Dearborn Subdivision.
Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A and B #717 working on the Illinois Central. During periods of lower traffic volumes, the Bessemer leased some of these units to other carriers, on whose tracks they roam... (more)
A pair of SD18s along with some SD9s are at Albion, PA for servicing on the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR. BLE was still affiliated with U.S. Steel at this time along with the Union RR. and the Duluth M... (more)
