After a brief pause to get signal indication to head south from the dispatcher, a trio of IC SD70's throttle up and pull a loaded ore train past the searchlight signals at the RX control point in ... (more)
CN U702 rolls south as it approaches the scale track just north of Albion PA.
After running empties up to Conneaut, three locomotives head south as light power, passing by searchlight signals south of Albion on a sunny fall day.
IC 1028 leads southbound Bessemer ore loads through RX at Albion PA
SD18 856 mates up with an SD38 and SD38-2 at the Albion, PA locomotive facility. The unit looks pretty original, but has newer class lights and also sports a double windshield rather than the orig... (more)
BLE SD38 865 and SD38-2 878 sun themselves at Bessemer & Lake Erie's yard in Albion, PA. The road also was using low nose SD18s and older SDs at the time.
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.
CN 5422 North Albion PA B&LE Sub - RX
Bessemer & Lake Erie 867 leads a southbound loaded iron ore train past the searchlights at RX in Albion, PA. Locomotives:BLE 867 SD38ACCN 5346 SD40-2WBLE 905 SD40T-3
BLE 871 and 862 are parked outside their diesel shops at Albion, PA. The BLE chose a unique headlight setup for the short hood, and also had unique sand fillers in the nose.
Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor #905 leads a southbound ore train past the searchlight signals in Albion. Locomotives: BLE 905 SD40T-3CN 5422 SD60IC 1018 SD70
The second loaded Southbound ore of the day brings the IC trio around the bend at RX with 2 cars of mixed freight on the rear
Winter on the Bessemer.
A Canadian cab Dash 9 leads a southbound ore train on the Bessemer through CP RX in Albion, PA. This is the first time CN GE locomotives have run on the Bessemer. These units came down from Canada... (more)
