I guess Walthers should consider re-releasing the BL2

[John]

I did also do the Speed for N-TRAK, but I have to find them to see if I got away with it, or not.  I suspect that I did.

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where do you N-TRAK?

[rswinnerton]

One of the WM ones survives at the B&O museum in Baltimore. There is also an operating one on the Stourbridge RR in northeastern PA. (I believe it's ex B&M). I was told it was the other WM unit, but corrected.
Russ

[wm3798]

You couldn't be more wrong, Can Opener Breath...

#82 is alive and well and plying home rails between Belington and Elkins WV in revenue service, and WM paint.

And changing the numbers on the speedlettering isn't as simple as you say.  The nose and tail number is smaller than anything Microscale makes.  That's why I held out for an old lead bomb to get my 82.  To truly be compatible with my modeled era, I also have to re-do the striping as well as the headlights... we'll see when I get to that!

Lee

[Mark5]

Hi Mark (N&W)
   I e-mailed Walthers on re-releasing the BL2 with the new split drive mechanism about six months ago with no responce back.

Good work! Maybe I'll see if I can no response from them too!

Mark

[brokemoto]

where do you N-TRAK?

I used to be with Northern Virginia N-TRAK, but I have not been a member for some time; ten years, or more.  Keep in mind that the plastic frame BL-2s came out in the early 1990s, so it was back then, that I did them.  I am aware that the numbers ain't quite the correct size (are they ever ?), especially on the nose, but I seem to remember that I did get away with it.  Now I must go find them; I wonder what I did with them..............................................

[sizemore]

And changing the numbers on the speedlettering isn't as simple as you say.  The nose and tail number is smaller than anything Microscale makes.  That's why I held out for an old lead bomb to get my 82.  To truly be compatible with my modeled era, I also have to re-do the striping as well as the headlights... we'll see when I get to that!

Lee

I'm going to try some castings taken from RS-3 shells in the next few weeks among other things I will keep you posted.

Tim

[brokemoto]

I'm going to try some castings taken from RS-3 shells in the next few weeks among other things I will keep you posted.
Tim

Hammerheads??

[sizemore]

Well dual beam sealed headlight castings. But with the spare parts I could try that too 

[Nato]

  As a lover of all the classsic paint schemes offered by LL on their diesels I purchased a S**t Pot of locos, heck the prices were reasionable,I even learned to live with the not so good nose shape on the E-8/9 locomotives. The BL2 has always fasinated me, an F-3 with a weird cut down body besides in those some what earlier days of N there was no way of knowing if anyone else would make locos in the classic colors from B&M W M and others like Erie two tone Green E Units. Turns out som manufacturers did, but thats another story. So I bought 2 each of all the plastic frame BL2 locos also had the time then to pilot convert all of them. When the re runs occurred I figured they were just the same loco rerun so I did not get any not knowing about the metal frames. oh well the early ones do run amazingly well for an old technology drive system. Now of course I'am so loco overloaded, that some of these (classics?) only get run occaisionaly,however now I know how much I could get on the Bay if I ever wanted to unload them. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.

[David Leonard]

"You couldn't be more wrong, Can Opener Breath..."

Actually, he COULD be: the Stourbridge unit is ex-BAR, not ex-B&M!  ;D

[wm3798]

Hammerhead?  Did someone say Hammerhead?  I've got the bones of an RS-3 laying around awaiting the muses to inspire me to do one.  My plan is to simply decapitate the short hood above the headlight and raise the whole thing up using sheet styrene sanded to shape.  There was an article in the BMX a couple of years ago that had some good shots of the roof detail of the steam generator outlets and the antenna and whatever else was up there.

Lee

[brokemoto]

I actually did cut it, somewhere half-way.  I had planned to cut a chunk out of the Mehano RSC-2 shell and sand, file, putty, sand, file and paste.

Then, I moved, and have not returned to it.

You way actually makes more sense, as you have minimal problems with the power chassis.  Why did I not think of that?

Still, if someone would do a resin casting of the piece, that would make it easier.  As I recall, the s/g stack resembles the exhaust stack on a GP-18 or latest phase GP-9.  On the prototype, both the escape and vent functions come out the same place.

[Bob Bufkin]

Lee, I found some hammerhead action:

[wm3798]

Nice...  Gotta look those guys up!
Lee