On a late fall afternoon, the CN Bessemer local L518 climbs the grade out of Greenville, Pennsylvania with 7 locomotives at the head end and an empty ballast train in tow. The newly arrived SD70M-... (more)

The era of Illinois Central SD70's hauling ore on the CN's former Bessemer & Lake Erie has drawn to a close with the arrival of several SD70M-2's. On October 24th, L518 brought 3 of the IC units a... (more)

In the post sunset "blue hour" Canadian National L518 passes through the control point at Oneida, Pennsylvania on the Bessemer Sub. In tow are three IC SD70's bound for interchange in Bu... (more)

The Canadian National Bessemer local L518 shoves back past the 63.4 signals in Grove City, Pennsylvania. The crew pulled an empty centerbeam car from Montgomery Truss & Panel Inc and are shoving b... (more)

With seven locomotives on the head end, CN L518 heads south through a tree tunnel of fall color at Browntown Road, south of Grove City, Pennsylvania. The three leading SD70M-2's are bringing the o... (more)

Bessemer and Lake Erie locomotives 905 and 867 switch the yard in Butler, PA as one of the five new CN SD70M-2s sits in the yard awaiting a transfer run to Greenville.

Framed by a maple tree holding on to its fall colors, CN L518 climbs the Low Line out of Greenville, Pennsylvania on the Bessemer Sub. Newly arrived SD70M-2's are taking the IC units to Butler for... (more)

The era of Illinois Central SD70's hauling ore on the former Bessemer & Lake Erie has drawn to a close with the arrival of several SD70M-2's. On October 24th, L518 brought 3 of the IC units and a ... (more)

The Bessemer & Lake Erie "Misc" job has BLE SD40T-3 number 905 leading as it runs southbound past the SX South signal in Saxonburg.

On a remarkable Sunday afternoon the BLE Misc run headed south from Greenville with the BLE trio in control. This train brought out a lot of people chasing and caused a bit of chaos here at Filer ... (more)

After working International Paper off of Ferry Road just north of this location, the L518 comes to a stop to wait for signal indication at CP River. Good to see this unit back after its rebuild s... (more)

A trio of BLE units are running once again on the Bessemer & Lake Erie in Grove City, Pennsylvania. A pair of SD38's and an SD40T bring L518 south on the line that has been under CN ownership sinc... (more)

The BLE duo heads south through Branchton under the BLE signal bridge. At this point I had been battling food poisoning all day long but got the specific shot I wanted on the trip!

It's 2020 and you wouldn't be able to tell that the CN bought the BLE years ago based off of this. Here we see BLE 878 and 867 pulling L518 south out of Greenville passing the old searchlights and... (more)

A trio of Bessemer & Lake Erie painted locos lead southbound local L518 over the CN owned Bessemer Sub, passing under the cantilever searchlight signals at the Oneida control point.