KDLX BL2 52 sits outside the engine shop at the HVRM. This unit was recently restored to operating condition and does pull HVRM's excursions trains some weekends.

DGVR 82, an authentic Western Maryland BL2 leads the New Tygart Flyer eastbound out of Kelly Mountain Tunnel near Elkins.

A fan trip behind Bangor & Aroostook BL-2 557, built in April 1949, crosses a bridge in Caribou, Maine, on June 1, 1980, to show off the diesel's new paint job. John W. Held photograph,... (more)

The BL2s were rather unsuccessful EMD design being a cross between an F-unit and a road switcher. The C&O owned 14 (the largest fleet) and used them almost exclusively in Michigan to power locals... (more)

It was a gray and gloomy day however visitors to the Kentucky Railway Museum then located in east Louisville prepare to board a Monon BL2 lead train.

The Stourbridge Line's Winter Wonderland Express travels North along the Lackawaxen River on a warm, rainy day. Shot taken from the Delaware & Hudson canal trail at Lock 31. The caboose is priva... (more)

Rock Island BL2 429 MU'ed with BL2 425 layover between freight runs at Peoria on April 2, 1960. Despite the uniqueness of BL2s, they had almost seventeen years of service before going to EMD as t... (more)

Bangor & Aroostook presented this nearly-original-condition EMD BL2, named the "American Railfan," to the Cole Land Transportation Museum in 1982. The only thing missing are the tractio... (more)

The Stourbridge Line in Honesdale, PA

The Stourbridge Line takes its name from the "Stourbridge Lion", a locomotive which was manufactured in Stouirbridge, England, by the firm Foster... (more)

The Stourbridge Line's 1949 built EMD BL2, former Bangor & Aroostook 54, is staged for boarding of at Honesdale, PA. The Delaware Lackwaxwen & Stourbridge operates their excursion trains to vari... (more)

Two former SNC BL2s are shoved onto the CKIN connection at Wellsboro. The two are heading to the Hoosier Valley Railway Museum for excursion service.

EMD BL2 #52 & #56 built in March & April of 1949. Shown here basking in the sun at CSX Selkirk Yard. Eventually they'll be on there way to Hoosier Valley in Indiana & planned for excursion service... (more)

Taken from the nose of a BL2, the Monon has placed its caboose in position for a return drag home to Hammond after dropping off a transfer to the BRC's Clearing Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Stourbridge Line's Easter Egg Express heading back to Honesdale with BL2 54 leading.

Roughly 70 years ago, one of the Boston & Maine's oddball EMD BL2s leads a North Conway (NH)-Boston branchline local into the station at Conway, NH. The BL2s are long gone but Conway still sees pa... (more)