“L&N” F7A 815

This EMD F7A started out in life in June 1952 as Bessemer and Lake Erie Railway 715. For over fifty years, it was 715’s duty to move iron ore from the docks on Lake Erie to the steel mills near Pittsburgh, PA. 715 and other F Units like this were still moving ore jenny cars around the ore docks at Conneaut, OH and Erie, PA as late as 2000! At the end of this unit’s career, the entire F Unit fleet was sold to locomotive resale company Larry’s Truck and Electric Co. in 2000. TCRM would purchase this unit along with sister 719 and two B-Units.

Although it’s had to wait patiently while its sister unit 819 is being restored, we have every intention of restoring this unit as 815.