Bessemer & Lake Erie 905 and 862 roll through Girard, Pennsylvania as they head toward the EMSCO Plant to perform some switching and interchange with NS. The train is rolling past the historic Gir... (more)
BLE 906 departs out of Fairlane with a T-bird.
B&LE 906 leads a T bird North through Iron Junction. The BLE 909 had a traction motor fire earlier in the day so the duo was split up as a result. Still cool seeing two tunnel motors elephant styl... (more)
A pair of B&LE tunnel motors depart Fairlane with a T-bird.
On a snowy Minnesota afternoon, two BLE SD40T-3’s lead the T-Bird south across Highway 7 in Mountain Iron as they head to Fairlane.
Heavy snow slams the Iron Range on a spring afternoon in Northern Minnesota as a rare pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3’s lead a T-Bird south past the Route 37 bridge as they close in on the ... (more)
A trio of Bessemer SD's leads the southbound ore train through Verona, PA, nearing the end of their journey at North Bessemer Yard.
BLE 903 leads a trio of tunnel motors on a taconite train from Proctor Yard down the Proctor Hill grade to the CN Duluth ore dock near Spirit Mountain.
BLE 903 leads a trio of rebuilt tunnel motors on a taconite train getting ready to depart the northwest end of CN's Proctor Yard and head down Proctor Hill to the Duluth ore dock. It took a bit of... (more)
Two Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3’s bring up the rear of A446 as they shove up Byron Hill past County Highway F in Byron.
Byron Hill helpers on their return North into shops at Fond Du Lac.
Stored here since the late 90's, ex-B&LE 718A sits with many vintage EMD models.
After dropping off a cut of boxcars, CN SD40-2LW #5262 leads BLE SD40T-3 #907 back to the north end of the yard at Brookhaven, MS., to pick their Train up and head back north to Jackson, MS.
There's still a lot of rarities running around on Canadian National going into 2022, pictured here is Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3 #907 leading CN local L562 south through Crystal Springs, MS., on... (more)
Bessemer & Lake Eire 907 leads CN L562 through Wesson, MS on their way to Brookhaven. BLE 907 was built as a SD45T-2 for the Southern Pacific in 1973 and was later sold to the Bessemer & Lake Eire... (more)
CN L562 passes the depot in Terry, MS led by BLE 907. BLE 907 was built as a SD45T-2 for the Southern Pacific in 1973 and was later sold to the Bessemer & Lake Eire and rebuilt to a SD40-3.
CN’s Jackson to Brookhaven local L562 passes the station in Hazlehurst, MS with Bessemer & Lake Eire SD40-3 on point. BLE 907 was built as a SD45T-2 for the Southern Pacific in 1973 and was late... (more)
CN sent me a nice birthday present this morning. A pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38-2's approach the Illinois International Port District in Chicago with the day's Lakefront Local.
BLE 904 rests between switching assignments in Two Harbors.
A very unique site to see now that BLE 862 is no longer stationed at Conneaut. It has been running the miscellaneous trains lately which has been awesome for us foamers! Here it is with 905 connec... (more)
B&LE 866 leads the Lakefront local East through East Chicago.
BLE tunnel motor 906 leads a loaded taconite drag through Adolph as they prepare to enter Proctor Yard under a wildfire sunset sky.
BLE 909 holds at CP Collingwood with ore empties as the Mesebi Miner departs town.
BLE 909 leads ore loads South through Zim.
Limestone loads head north from Proctor with several other trains in the yard waiting for their turn down the hill to Duluth. At this same moment, another load of limestone was coming up the hill... (more)
The BLE 907 works the yard as M 399 Doubles out to the South Bend Sub.
Former SP 9305, an old SD45T-2, Works Battle Creek yard. Long days of Banging cars and doubling up trains.
After switching out EMSCO and interchanging with NS at Wallace Junction in Girard, the CN Bessemer local returned to Cranesville, Pennsylvania. The train pulled south through the junction at CE, t... (more)
