The EMD BL-2

The EMD BL-2 is a diesel engine with a B-B type wheel configuration manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division often shortened to EMD. Mostly know as the Ugly Duckling among other EMD diesels this train set the stage for the GP locomotives. Original owners included: Bangor and Aroostook, the Boston and Main Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio (or C&O) Railroad, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway (later the Monon Railroad), and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the Electro-Motive Division owned a demonstrator locomotive built as a BL-1 but later changed it to a BL-2, the Florida East Coast Railway, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and The Western Maryland Railway.

 

 

 

Image 1: Janesville & Southeastern #52 at National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, April 26, 2004
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Picture by: Sean Lamb

Image 2:  Bangor and Aroostook #54 at Northern Maine Junction, Maine, August 23, 1978
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Picture by: William Rogerson

Image 3: Western Maryland #81 winged paint scheme at B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland June 27, 2007
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Picture by: John Gray

Image 4: Monon #32 at Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky, July 13, 2010
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Picture by: James Hinman

Image 5: Western Maryland #81 lightning paint scheme at Hagerstown, Maryland, August 18, 1975
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Picture by: Kim Piersol