The calendar says it's a little past fall peak in the valley, but the trees say otherwise. Here, southbound iron ore loads roar through Oneida with a Bessemer cantilever signal and ancient pole li... (more)

Three classic EMD products are pulling for all their worth as they grind out of Conneaut with a heavy train of iron ore in tow.

Due to a series of strong wind and storms, much of the color around Lake Pymatuning has fallen to the ground. With the tail end of the storms just clearing up, BLE 867 and two tunnel motors take ... (more)

A Bessemer SD38AC and a pair of SD40T-3's lead a loaded ore train across the trestle just west of I-79 in Pardoe, PA. The cattle on the hill don't seem to be too concerned about the train roaring... (more)

With my birthday being on the 11th, good friend Richard Thompson and I decided to celebrate by chasing the Bessemer's loaded ore train, starting in Conneaut. About 100 miles later, the chase came ... (more)

910 and two sisters work up hill with a loaded train in tow as they pull down 3 west in North Bessemer Yard. Their return train of empties can be seen in the background on 35 and 36 East.

A few miles north of the Allegheny river bridge BLE 910 south throttles up with a load of ore in tow for the Union Railroad.

With 74 loads of ore in tow the engineer of the three tunnel motors cuts the power back and will start to apply the dynamic brakes in just a few minutes for the down hill run to the Allegheny rive... (more)

We went out looking for Aurora Borealis but only found this southbound Bessemer train.

After bringing empty hoppers northbound into Conneaut, the morning road crew gets their return trip to Greenville underway, rolling under the sizable NKP trestle over the Conneaut Creek.

Three tunnel motors rebuilt to conform with Tier III emission standards crawl south along Conneaut Creek at a snail's pace with a decent sized ore train in tow.

The Bessemer at its finest- three SD40T-3's are in command of a loaded ore train headed southbound on the Bessemer Subdivision in the small hillside settlement of Hartstown. Also of note, the fir... (more)

A loaded ore train headed by a trio of Bessemer's finest SD40T-3's rolls south at K O Junction, where one can find quite the aged signal bridge spanning the mainline and south end of the passing s... (more)

BLE 902, 901 and 866 pull 48 loads of Minnesota ore into North Bessemer yard where it will be interchanged with the Union railroad, it will then be taken down to the furnace's at the USS Edgar Tho... (more)

The conductor ties down the 48 loads that they just pulled into North Bessemer.