3 tunnel motors drag a heavy tactonite ore train into North Bessemer on a beautiful winter day.

Mid train DPUs?? Nope, due to a derailment in North Bessemer clogging the entrance to the yard, 2 units were sent down with a scrap train. Upon arrival, they connected to the derailed train, pulle... (more)

Bessemer crew seen walking down to unloosen the brakes on the end hoppers before setting back north.

A B&LE rebuild leads a Minorca loaded taconite ore train down Steelton Hill at Nopeming Jct. The Bessemer unit is substituting for one of the gray WC/CN SD40-2s.

Short of power, CN assigned this Bessemer unit to pinch hit for the normal WC SD40-3s assigned to this Escanaba ore load while loading on the former Missabe.

A pair of B&LE SD40T-3's idle at XB!

Seems like every week one of these tunnel motors broke down, it's barely been a week since I caught 908 broke down in NB. Now it's 907 and 908!

A late season blizzard works against section crews in their fight to keep switches open. The yard would shut down later in the day due to worsening conditions.

Three tunnel motors pull into North Bessemer as snow begins to thaw out as the sun shines!

Broken down 908 idles in North Bessemer as it desperately waits in the cold for a crew to come rescue it.

A trio of tunnel motors seen in North Bessemer yard from high above as if it was an HO scale layout!

BLE 904S passes the former Grove City Station at MP 62.6, now a feed store, with 23 scrap gons and 1 coil car holding the FRED. 8 degree PA weather today.

BLE 903 & DMIR 317 head back to Pokey yard from the BNSF while the BNSF Section crew works on the adjacent main

BLE 908 south bound off of the Scrubgrass Rd. Trestle with 28 scrap cars in tow. I know BLE is now CN, but as long as they're still orange, they're still BLE.

Transfer units fromkegama Yard help a stalled M-345 up Steelton Hill in far western Duluth.