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I had bid on that one (kinda liked the unique looks even it none ever made it up here). Glad to see its gone to a good home.
I’ve always loved the BL2, it’s such a unique loco. I model a fictional B&M branchline so I have a Proto2K B&M BL2 as part of my loco roster although it doesn’t really fit in with my mid 70’s time frame. It always attracts peoples attention when I run it though because it’s so different looking.
Krasny Strela, if you where the other bidder I sort of sorry I beat you out. Not that I don’t want it that is. Seller had listed another one NIB for buy it now $30.00. Have no idea if it is still there or not.
Should have it by Saturday.
Cuda Ken
do i get the body as agreed?
I’ve seen that Monon BL2 at the Kentucky Railroad Museum before. It looks just like the BL2 in one of PA Belt’s pictures (it might even be the same one, can’t quite remember the number). This particular BL2 is sometimes used to haul the Museum’s tourist train. (Only when the L&N steamer or the ONLY CF7 in Santa Fe Yellowbonnet freight paint aren’t pulling it. The Kentucky RR museum has all sorts of goodies, don’t they?) That museum is worth a visit, trust me.
-Brandon
Yes PA Belt if I don’t like the body it is yours. If you have another shell that would fit or another engine you would like to trade let me know.Post PIC on this posting if you have anything to trade. I am weak on engine ID’s at this point. Only reason I bought it was the cost and my lack of 8 wheels drive engines. Used is fine as long as it works well, this one is NIB.
Here are a few links on E-Stupid for BL 2’s.
I hope to have the BL this Saturday and will post some PIC if folks would like to see them.
Cuda Ken
Another place to see a 1:1 BL-2 is at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor, ME. The museum is open May 1 to Nov 11, and is mostly cars and trucks.
This is Bangor & Aroostook RR BL-2 #557 that was built in 1949 and retired in 1980. BAR (called B&A in northern and central Maine) kept these old diesels running in maineline service long after most railroads scrapped or traded theirs. The railfans loved them!
PA Belt, I now have 4 and bidding on a 5th BL 2 Monon. There are 2 left for buy it now on E-stupid. Just thought I let you know. Now I need other Monon’s that are not BL 2’s. Seems there more BL 2’s than other engine’s. Cuda Ken
Say what? The Bangor and Aroostook used them as trailing units quite frequently. Here’s a couple of units squeezed between a pair of F-3’s.
Andre
You almost have to wonder if the design studio at GM was having a slow day, since they had not come up with “bowtie” tail lights and fins yet. Could Harvey Earl have yearned for the Raymond Lowey industrial design mantel?
Thankfully the form follows function axiom lead from the Alco RS to the GM “geeps”, but lead to latest slap some boxes on the frame, who cares what it looks like design school. BL-2s might have been “Ugly Ducklings” but they still have some charm in retrospect.
Will
Hey Cudaken,
Don’t buy up all the Monon engines now, you hear! 
I myself have one of those P2K BL2’s and love it. Had to replace the all to common cracked gear problem, but she’s a runner now.
HD
Western Maryland #82 is alive and very well. Rode behind it the past Columbus Day weekend from Elkins to Spruce, and the folks in Durbin are taking very good care of it.[tup]
Daddy, yep so far all the BL 2’s have came in with the cracked gears. Cheap fix and easy. What part of IND are you from? I was born in Washington Ind and grew up in Carmel Ind. Cuda Ken
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I’ve always loved the BL2, it’s such a unique loco. I model a fictional B&M branchline so I have a Proto2K B&M BL2 as part of my loco roster although it doesn’t really fit in with my mid 70’s time frame. It always attracts peoples attention when I run it though because it’s so different looking.
Unlike everyone who has responded to this thread, I have been intimately involved with the Boston & Maine BL2 1551. At 12 years of age, I moved to Plymouth, NH, then a real railroad town. 3 passenger trains each way each day plus a 4th in the summer. Daily freight Concord to Lincoln with GP7 1560. And every other day Plymouth-Wells River-White Rover Junction with BL2 1551. I got adopted by the full crew of that little freight, road in the cab and the buggy, helped put the engine to bed in the local roundhouse. While people can say what they like, the visibilty down the sloped-in cab body was WAY better than on an FT or F3 or for that matter any of the Fs or Es that EMD produced. There was a steam generator under the front hood forpassenger service but no MU capability. It had footboards fore and aft. The rear facing horn was disliked by the crew for sounding like a “fish horn”. Sister BL2s were used as rescue engines when 1140 or 1141, the “Sacred Cows” used on the “School Train” (timed to bring the high school students from Warren, Wentworth and Rumney to and from Plymouth) and in a lone plow train sent south from Woodsville to clear the Warren Cut. At one point the freight from Concord stopped in Plymouth and 1551 upon arrival from the north picked up the cars for Lincoln and headed up the branch. That gave me the splendid opportunity to ride on the cab up to Beebe River where I could get off and catch a ride home with my father. I even got an occasional ride to Lincoln and memorable ride when the old snowplow was put out front to flange out the Lincoln branch. I never heard any complaints from
AHM also had a BL2 in its HO catalog, and the “attractiveness” of the engine was not enhanced by AHM’s use of Fairbanks Morse C-Liner trucks. The BL2 looks like a person with a distractingly big nose; AHM made it look like a person with a big nose, wearing clown shoes.
Dave Nelson
This thread died 8 years ago…now it’s reborn!!! It’s a thread-zombie! TRAINS…TRAINS…
I have two of these, one powered, one dummy. Trucks aren’t the only thing Tempo got wrong, the curves on the front, top and front, both too flat, windshield frames too small. I didn’t buy either, they came in a box of junk, and that’s the proper term, that someone brought into the hobby shop and the shop owner decided wasn’t worth looking at. As the power truck on the powered unit is bad, I have two dummies and no use for either.
Rich.