Looking west as B&LE F7 #728 approaches the line's only tunnel. Crew was actually switching a coal loading site and needed to work through the tunnel with drags. Photo permission by crew, of cou... (more)

A pair of Tunnelmotors struggle to pull an ore train into Albion. The train is coming off of the Conneaut Branch. The track to the right is the old Erie Branch.

On a beautiful spring morning, B&LE 908 and 905 lift an ore train out of the Conneaut Docks.

The CN may be in control, but the engines and the bridge still say B&LE. A Tunnelmotor and two SD38's lead a southbound ore train over the Allegheny River on a summer evening.

A southbound XB Turn crosses the Allegheny River with 78 loads of ore for US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant.

"Rust Buckets".

867 charges north with empty ore buckets with Armco Steel in the background. Congrats to engineer Briggs for this was his last run!

These were the common head end power on trains those days. They could make aroar that belied their mere 2000 HP.

Here it is, warts & all, as they say. As I recall this was the only F in the whole place.

A pair of B&LE SD9's load a coal train at the Union Railroad's Duquesne Coal Docks along the Monongahela River.

B&LE Tunnelmotors are serviced in Greenville, on Y2K+5.

B&LE 873, an XB Turn for North Bessemer, doubles its train in Shenango Yard with a mix of SD38-2's and a single SD18 for power.

A rare five-unit consist on the B&LE leads an empty hopper train south into Conneautville.

A northbound coal train rolls thru Conneautville. Check out the Keystone Gas Station in the background. Regular for $1.14 per gallon! Don't you wish we could have that back again!

A southbound ore train with 57 loads for North Bessemer crosses the Allegheny River Bridge with a SD40T-3 leading a pair of SD38's. This scene will soon change forever.. The new Pennsylvania Tur... (more)