A rare lashup of just two SD38 units heads south on the B&LE Low-line.

Not seen in public since her overhaul, Bessemer & Lake Erie 643 has languished in a Pittsburgh-area warehouse for many years. New plans may see the locomotive relocated to Meadville, PA, where pla... (more)

Climbing the grade with northbound empties.

Usually the domain of Union RR switchers, a quartet of B&LE SDs haul coke from Clairton on the Union Railroad.

The BLE northbound train slowly pulls along the river and into the ore dock at Conneaut. Before we know it, IC black power will be pulling these trains and the BLE tunnel motors will be gone.

BLE 902 is about a half mile away from the end of its journey at the P&C Dock.

A different vantage point of a common scene. Two ex-B&LE tunnelmotors and a DM&IR unit shove a taconite train onto Dock 6 as cars continue to whiz past below on I-35.

BLE 909 followed by IC 6257 crosses the St. Louis River with ore empties.

After delivering loads to the Union an hour early, BLE 906 and two other tunnel motors take a train of empties back north to the docks in Conneaut. Get these shots while you can, rumor has it IC p... (more)

The Bessemer hauls a load of empty hoppers north across the Allegheny River.

BLE 909/903 and DMIR 215 are about to latch up and shove loads of Taconite onto Dock 6.