The mighty 903 tunnel motor with a full load of ore at -20 degrees.
An empty ore train makes short work of a plow ridge created by the Lake County truck in the distance, which was coming back and sanding the opposite side of the road.
A Proctor snowplow waits for a Roadswitch job to clear before continuing on its sanding rounds.
Bessemer & Lake Erie SD18s and an SD38 await servicing at their Albion, Pa. engine facility between runs. BLE owned six SD18s, 851-856 built in September 1962.
B&LE SD40-3 No. 900 trails a set of light engines as it passes through Greenville, PA on July 10, 2008.
CN has installed new "Vader" style hooded signals along the Minntac Sub and now they are operational, having replaced the old school searchlight signals within the past week or so. Here is BLE 90... (more)
The first section of the daily pair of U702 loaded ore trains thunders out of the valley at Conneaut with a trio of matched EMDs in the attractive orange and black BLE livery. Despite CN's acquisi... (more)
In a relatively rare scene a pair of Bessemer trains meet north of Butler, this has been Canadian National property for over a decade but you'd never know it from this scene.
A Bessemer tunnel motor eliminates a plow ridge as it leads a train of empty ore cars out of Two Harbors for the Minorca plant near Virginia, MN. This area received around 3 feet of snow.
126 miles from Salamanca on the Erie, a southbound Bessemer ore train rolls overhead on the railroads Osgood Viaduct.
Two Bessemer tunnel motors sandwich a CN SD40-2W on the daily ore train bound for North Bessemer. The CN 5245 was brought in to temporarily replace BLE 905, which was damaged in a grade crossing i... (more)
Minntac loads howl through the curve at Iron Junction as they slow for the 10 mph switch at West Wye, where they will enter the Iron Range Subdivision.
A four-pack of Bessemer's finest bring a lengthy string of empty ore cars north across the Allegheny River Bridge. Arguably one of the most impressive railroad structures in the eastern U.S, the b... (more)
The AK Steel turn rolls towards Calvin Yard where it will prepare to switch the mill.
A pair of EMDs shuttle a short train of ballast though the swamps of Hartstown.
BLE #900 North just got the signal at Adolph and prepares to blast out of Proctor.
Go big or go home I have always loved the old school BLE logo never would i ever guess that i would see one. This old boxcar has been covered as a storge shed in the BLE Butler yard. Taken with Pe... (more)
U702 fly's through Standard Junction with a loaded ore train for the URR.
Three BLE EMD's pull up to Kremis with a loaded ore train for a crew change before continuing south to North Bessemer to interchange with the URR.
A trio of BLE's pull up for a recrew on a beautiful Monday afternoon.
Loads of iron ore bound for Edgar Thompson thunder through Butler.
Orange over orange as a clean B&LE Tunnel Motor soars over a not-so-clean BNSF GE on a grain train.
The curve does a good job of hiding the trailing CN motors, as this limestone train blasts out of Proctor headed for either Minntac or Minorca.
Three Orange beauties head back south with loads for North Bessemer.
