A late evening sun highlights the B&LE 909 and DM&IR 408 as they lead a T-bird load near the end of a beautiful day on the range.

It's fall peak in the valley as the sound of three EMD's reverberates through the rolling farmland near Adamsville. Just another day at work on the Bessemer...

With a fresh crew on board, three Bessemer EMD's lead the charge into Fredonia with 70+ loads of ore at the drawbar.

After bringing loads to north Bessemer the BLE heads north with a load of scrap and 100 plus empties for Greenville as they cross the Allegheny river bridge just before the sun completely set in t... (more)

There are five BLE's working the former Missabe, every once in a while they'll get put together making for a cool consist to chase. Here the 903 and 909 lead a repainted IC SD40-2 with another lo... (more)

A rolling meet north of Proctor as an empty U-779 (Minntac) with BNSF ore cars and DP unit shoving meets an arriving loaded U-717 (Unitac) ore train behind B&LE 903.

The orange of the B&LE stands out in the northern Minnesota landscape as it leads a train of taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac to Proctor along the Missabe Subdivision.

Once the home of a large roster of steam engines including the massive 2-10-4's which lead to a large roster of diesels is now home to just ten engines one of them sits next to the empty and crumb... (more)

Three of the Bessemer's finest charge southbound with 70+ loads of ore. The scene at Branchton is completed by the ancient pole line and signal bridge. Note that this signal bridge is the only com... (more)

It's funny in retrospect how wild everybody was going back in Summer 2009 over the reappearance of the BLE SD38s. Many people believed it was the last time we would ever see the engines again. Two... (more)

BLE 905, 866 and 902 scream at the top of their lungs as they escort a string of loaded hoppers up the hogback on the Conneaut Branch.

Pennsylvania farmland surrounds a southbound Bessemer ore train preparing to duck under the Orr Road bridge near Mercer.

Three Bessemer motors accelerate on the point of an ore train departing the P&C Docks in Conneaut, as seen from atop Route 20.