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Dadbill in association with Diesels West brings you the Chesapeake and Ohio Branch Line 2 diesel! Forerunner of the mighty General Purpose 7, the BL2 is considered by many a 'transition' unit between the cab locomotive and the hood locomotive. A test bed of sorts, and much of what was learned from the BL2 was incorporated into the GP7.While you're waiting for the pictures to load, a little C&O BL2 background...Chesapeake and Ohio being one of the last railroads in America to dieselize, purchased the most BL2s of any railroad, having a fleet of fourteen. It, along with other early diesel types were used as a test to see if dieselization would be a profitable and economic venture. The rest is history.C&O used their fleet for both frieght and passenger service almost exclusively in Michigan during their fourteen year history when the entire fleet was traded in to EMD in the summer of 1962 for new GP30s that would be delivered that fall, which ushered in Chesapeake and Ohio's mega-orders of second generation diesels during the sixties.Thanks again to Diesels West for bringing one of my favorite diesels to life!( I call this first picture "Okay dadbill, if you get out of the way we can finish this job!" )

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Those are some great looking units. But the cab side windows sit a little low to me, or are they supposed to be like that. But they are still good looking units.

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Creepy. I just found out about these things existing yesterday when looking for something on either the C-Liner or the Baldwin diesels. I thought they were kind of odd-looking, and now, darn you Dadbill, you've made it in one of my "preferred 'road" liveries, and of course I'll have to go and get it. Do you know how much C&O stuff I'm going to have to get because of your diligent work? Thanks for all the things you create.

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ssw96: Yes this is where the windows are on a BL2: http://paintshop.railfan.net/images/lytle/bl2.htmlI made a passenger cabin view inside the cab, but when I started running the engine on a train, I realized I couldn't get back to the caboose passenger view.
So here's what I did, an add-on file for all three engines which will provide both views (loco cab or caboose), via batch file.

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What sort of cabs did these locos have? I'd guess F/E-style cabs, or?

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Originally BL2s were made by cutting up F3s, and I imagine there was not much difference in the cabs, I used an F cab for this unit.

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hey DadBill and DW, Nice work!!! Now, how about the Rock Island's black and red scheme, or the Maroon??? Now THERE is a challenge!!! LOL Love your C&O work!!! So does my girl, who is a Chessie NUT!!!!
LAter!Kelley D. Ellison



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Kelly
Check the FL the first BL from Diesel West was the RI maroon with pinstripes(you'll need the horn patch loaded the next day) but the red & black could look nice as well of course Monon's black & gold or C&EI's blue & orange work nice too.Gary S

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"Have You Forgotten"
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And along with permission from dieselswest I'm in the process of reskinning the BL-2 into several varieties of Bangor & Aroostook from the original grey and blue to the tri-color and the grey and blue dedicated to "The American Railfan". Probably a few weeks off.Dwight.........

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The BL unit is its own design not a modification The BL1 and BL2 cabs were a takeoff of the F series cab. If you notice the cab of a BL is over the rear axle of the front truck while the F cab is over the front axle. I happan to have broadside photos of both F's and BL's and they were there own creature The BL cab is set back much further on the carbody to make room for the front porch and hood. The F series used the carbody to help strengthen the frame. This was attempted with the BL series but the modifications required proved to be too costly to manufacture.

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i found a 1/87 BL2 and a 1/87 F3 and did some measureingoverall length
BL2-44 feet
F3-38 feet height from top of rail
BL2-11.25 ft
F3-10.5 ftfrom front of coupler to the front of the crew door
BL2-12.5 ft
F3-8.5 ftboth the F3 and BL2 are both 9.25 ft from top of rail to the top of the cab windows.truck centers
BL2-26 ft
F3- 22.5 ft

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Hi Dadbill, you have mail.

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Dadbill, could it be possible for you to make Western Maryland BL2 # 81 in its "fireball" paint scheem?mrWM734

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I got out of the repainting business last year, I don't feel I have the talents to repaint and make it look real the way some of the more talented artists here do.
What I do is 'repastes'. I either take pictures (camera or scanned) and fit them onto the model, then fill in and add from there. I personally feel this gives the models a real, authentic look. Some people agree.
If you have pictures (camera or scanned) of the front and side, or even a model you can scan, send me a message to my inbox here and I'll see if I can set something up.

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If I was able to take pictures of it, I would go this weekend, but it is currently at the B&O Railroad Museum. Even though I am a member, I can't go because half of the roof of the museum's roundhouse collapsed on February 17th!mrWM734

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-and the fireball scheme...

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Paint Scheme number one is done... Fireball next.

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WOW! Those models are AWESOME! Can't wait for their release. Great Job!mrWM734

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