BLE 910 cuts through the fog as it muscles a pulldown out of Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana.

A clean B&LE tunnel motor shoves Limestone loads back from Hallett under CN's dormant Dock 5 in Duluth, MN to then head up Proctor Hill

First- and second-generation EMD power on the Bessemer & Lake Erie roster congregate in front of the North Bessemer engine house.

BLE 867 takes the ore south past the 20.7 signal, the approach signal to SX north.

BLE 909 adds to the spectacular fall colors as this empty taconite train makes its way north for another load of pellets at United Taconite.

B&LE SD38-2 878 leads L516 west through Van Loon.

I had a hunch that today's ore train would be led by a Bessemer locomotive, so I braved the ice storm and drove to the outskirts of Grove City to wait for the train. Certainly the train had an ea... (more)

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.