A trio of B&LE SD38's have recently returned to the road.

A southbound train of stone and ore arrives at CE in Albion. The train is curving off of the Conneaut Branch while the track to the right is the Erie Branch.

After setting off a cut of stone in Branchton, a southbound XB Turn continues south with ore for North Bessemer.

A southbound train of stone and ore climbs out of Conneaut Harbor on a beautiful spring morning.

Looking like the Bessemer of 30 years ago, a trio of SD38's lead a northbound hopper train through Euclid on a beautiful spring day.

A southbound stone and ore train from Conneaut moves slowly through Albion as it approaches the weigh-in-motion scale.

As storm clouds loom east of the train, SD38AC 867 thunders downgrade over the Conneaut Branch headed for the P&C Docks and brighter skies.

Most of the remaining BLE SD38 fleet is seen here bringing another empty train back to P&C dock. The BLE is a year round operations check out photo 224658 to see this location in winter.

Flo's Candy Shop, Greenville Shoe Hospital, BLE 867, Curves Fitness..... something is out of place among downtown Greenville's storefronts.

Spring has sprung on the BLE and it offers a nice contrast to the Bessemer's bright orange SD38s.

A dream come true in Bessemer land. For the past week or so, most of the remaining BLE SD38 fleet has been combining forces to power mainline ore trains. Replaced as the road power of choice a dec... (more)

Electro Motive Diesel's SD40T-3 and International Harvester's 656 Hydro. Different technologies, both work horses and most likely built within a three hour drive of each other.

A feat that is considerable rare in this day of mega mergers and regional spin offs; BLE 908 utilizes a bridge built by the BLE 90 years ago to haul the same traffic to and from the Pittsburgh are... (more)

Storm clouds loom over western Pennsylvania as what is now a rare leader, SD38AC 867, races to beat the storm back to Greenville.

This was the first appearance of two SD38ACs together on the B&LE mainline in about 6 years and the first since the CN takeover in 2004. 866 and 867 get the job done as they move a long string of ... (more)