and he notes - Actually, the BL-1 air intakes were louvers while the BL-2s were supplied with either screens or louvers, depending on the road. A comparison can be found on this site:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel56.html The only other non-MU types that I know of were B&M's BL-2s which were identical to the BL-1 with no MU connections, but they did have the drop step. These were later removed and a railing support installed. All four, (Nos. 1500-1553) were supplied with steam generators and remained in branch and local fright service until retirement in 1958/59. They and 2 F-units were traded to EMD in 1961 for 6 GP-18s (1750-1755). I rode in the cab on one of the B&M BL units from Concord to Plymouth, NH back in the fifties. The train had a coach, a combine and a milk car. It stopped every so often and unloaded milk cans and took forever to get to Plymouth. On that trip I rode a speeder (with a RR employee checking signals) the 30 or so miles further north to Woodstock to photograph the East Branch and Lincoln's steam switching operation at the paper mill and rode back to Concord in a caboose on the branch local. I got home around 9 p.m. Considering that I started out on the 3:00 a.m. "Paper Train" the day was only 18 hours long. Being a teenager at the end of steam had its advantages! Raleigh At 10:32 AM 2/27/2005, mikeschessie wrote: >The BL1 was built with different cooling fan intake screens on the >sides than the BL2. Remembering back to what I read when I built my >kit, I believe the screens were changed out before the one unit was >released for service. >Whether or not the units had MU capability did not determine the >model number. Early units were built to operate singly, mostly on >branch lines, and so were factory built without MU. Only later did >the railroads decide to run the units together with other diesels, so >MU was either added at the factory on later units or added by the >railroads themselves. >Sincerely, >Mike Sulzbach The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
