B&LE SD38-2 878 leads L516 west through Van Loon.

I had a hunch that today's ore train would be led by a Bessemer locomotive, so I braved the ice storm and drove to the outskirts of Grove City to wait for the train. Certainly the train had an ea... (more)

BLE 878 and CN 5336 thunder west through Ivanhoe on a sunny evening.

A Bessemer SD38-2 and a CN zebra striped SD40-2W are just out of Kirk Yard and about to pass under Route 12. They're in charge of train L516, bound for Griffith Yard. A good portion of the train w... (more)

Enroute to the AMP Shops in Dansville, Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38 #862 sits in CSX's Goodman Street Yard in Rochester. CSX local B796 has a caboose on the west end and gets ready to shove out of th... (more)

B&LE 903 pulls empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill after dumping Taconite at the Duluth docks, and back to the Mesabi Iron Range for another trainload.

A rare sight has maroon and orange lashed together in the form of B&LE 906 and DM&IR 215 handling switching duties on CN's Proctor Yard E-Lead. Occasionally a tunnel motor will stand in for the us... (more)

B&LE 904 lifts limestone loads out of Missabe Jct. as a taconite load awaits dumping at CN Dock 6 in Duluth. The limestone is bound for the Taconite plants of Minnesota's famed Mesabi Iron Range.

BLE 910 rolls through the rolling hills of Western Iowa on its way to Denison and Council Bluffs.

BLE 910 glides a CN steel local through Griffith, Indiana as it prepares to cross the diamond.

A Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38, still wearing DMIR paint, sits in CSX's Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY. The locomotive is enroute to American Motive Power in Dansville for work, and will be pic... (more)

Canadian National's Butler turn heads south through Branchton with an entirely Bessemer locomotive consist and only one car in tow. This train is operating on the old Bessemer and Lake Erie mainl... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38AC 867 is on the point as the crew backs the power set on to loaded iron ore cars and builds the southbound train in the Conneaut Harbor.

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A pair of Bessemer tunnel motors lead the MRF north into Iron Junction.

Storms were on the way, but the sun was shining bright as BLE 867 screamed through town on a southbound ore train, with help from CN 5291 and fellow Bessemer 905.