Back in the 1990s interchange traffic between the Bessemer & Lake Erie and Norfolk Southern was a regular happening at Wallace Junction in Pennsylvania.
Loaded coke off the Bessemer was delivered to NS at Wallace to be delivered westward.
On days off from work I would venture to Pennsylvania with the hopes of catching activity.
On days that Marty was off, he and his brother Robert would pick me up and we also had good luck on the Bessemer.
Shown are some highlights I was able to get on Thursday April 17, 1997.
The top image shows a B&LE train departing with a few cars of freight and empty hoppers at Girard
In sequence below we see NS eastbound empties arriving at Wallace, the B&LE leaving Girard, a B&LE train passed through the yard in Albion and an NS westbound at Ashtabula that had picked up coke loads at Wallace.
At the time, the B&LE still used the yard in Albion, but today most of the yard is gone and there is no activity there.
Article and Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
Tags: Albion Pennsylvania, Ashtabula Ohio, B&LE locomotives, B&LE motive power, Bessemer & Lake Erie, coke trains, Edward Ribinskas photograhs, Girard Pennsylvania, Norfolk Southern, Wallace Junction Pennsylvania
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