Just west of Lake City, PA on the CSX water level route, there's the remains of an old line that branched off the water level route and ran down to Greenville. Much of the old line is now a trail. There's still an old railroad bridge a couple miles south of where it branched off the CSX line. It's pretty cool to follow the line on Google maps.
That would be the Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad. (Not to be confused with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie). It did interchange with the B&LE just south of Greenville at the Shenango yard.
The Bessemer would be the single best large railroad to preserve, unless CN is rash, it has its complete shop complex and a vast majority of it service route, along with two steam locomotives still in existence, that could be returned to service as tourist trains on their OG road...
tytyjc if you mean at Saxonburg(sx), don't remember too much about it.We we're doing some trackwork there, when some cars being shoved up into the plant derailed. On another occasion, a loco caught a switch point and derailed ( lots of o t that day). Remember all of the ore pellets along the tracks near there.
Bob Gallo thank you! also you can visit the abandoned yard it's know a community park! I'm thinking of writing a book for the saxonburg plant mind if I use the info you gave me?
Nice history! At 1:40 I used to watch on a vhs tape called all aboard from green frog productions I think it was rails to steel city? I wonder if it’s available on dvd and Blu-ray?
@@steveneff5402 My grandparents lived on Mercer RD behind Frank crash's junkyard and I used to always watch the trains go by. I'm so glad I found this.
@@kobelcofan The Bessemer and Lake Erie full documentary is available from Green Frog Productions and it covers almost everything on the B&LE. Here's the link: www.greenfrog.com/Neff_B&LE_DVD.shtml
