Lake Erie's locomotives, especially the SD40T-3 "Tunnel Motors," have been scattered across the CN system in the mid-late 2000s with the majority leaving the B&LE Property in March 2015. Many of these SD40T-3s are being used on the line that feeds most of B&LE's traffic, the former Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad in Minnesota. The iron ore that originates on these lines is transloaded to ships at Two Harbors, Minnesota; then sent by ship to Conneaut, Ohio, where it is again transloaded to B&LE trains. It is then taken down to steel mills in the Pittsburgh area, mainly to the blast furnaces at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania, part of the Mon Valley Works. As of October 2022, the locomotives on the Bessemer include a set of 3 or 4 CN EMD SD70M-2s (CN 8800, 8804, 8827, 8876, and 8907 are currently on the property) for ore trains. B&LE Tunnel Motor 905, B&LE SD38AC 868, and B&LE SD38 862 (painted in the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad scheme) are kept on the line for use on locals, and rare appearances on the ore trains. 868 previously operated at the docks in Conneaut until the loop track was put back in place around 2020. References External links Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-642, "Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, Greenville Shops" CN Website - GLT Acquisition Ohio railroads Pennsylvania railroads Former regional railroads in the United States Former Class I railroads in the United States Railway companies established in 1900 Andrew Carnegie Canadian National Railway subsidiaries Companies based in Pittsburgh Predecessors of the Canadian National Railway