Four Bessemer units lead ore loads south as they pass the junction with the Erie Branch at CE on the north side of Albion. The Bessemer & Lake Erie used to have a major yard here. Ore trains out of Conneaut would terminate here and get reclassified and head south. Same thing would also happen for coal trains coming north to Conneaut. The yard was so big that it had an A and B yard. The B yard was located on the north end where the junction is with the Erie Branch. The B yard had a capacity of around 2,300 cars. The A yard was located at the south end closer to downtown Albion where a car repair shop and locomtive facility were also located. The A yard had a capacity of around 900 cars. Today the B yard is reduced to four tracks and the A yard has two tracks.

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Rolling south to a recrew at Kremis, U702 splits the Bessemer & Lake Erie searchlights at MP 97.2 on a sunny fall morning along the CN Bessemer Sub.

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The evening sun shines on CN train U703 as it has arrived in Conneaut Harbor and has started to go around the rebuilt loop track to begin loading iron ore for North Bessemer.

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Empty hoppers head north through the town of Conneautville, PA as a pair of CN EMD’s lead the train to Conneaut for another load of iron ore for North Bessemer.

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Empties for Conneaut split the B&LE searchlights at MD South as a trio of IC SD70’s lead the train north as lake effect snow pounds the snow belt of Northwest PA.

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