Stourbridge Line's BL2 54 on the back of the Winter Wonderland Limited. 54 will lead on the return trip to Honesdale.

Stourbridge Line BL2 54 leads a fall foliage excursion across White Mills Rd. as it makes its way back to Honesdale.

BL2 54 takes a break under fall colors and dark skies.

The first year of the Stourbridge Line’s operation occurred while freight service on the former Erie branch from the Southern Tier line at Lackawaxen to Honesdale, Pennsylvania was still being o... (more)

On a rainy day, one of Rock Island's five BL2s leads a commuter train in Chicago. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Awaiting a pickup by the Battenkill Railroad, two former Saratoga & North Creek BL2s and a Greenwich & Johnsonville caboose are seen sitting at the interchange at Eagle Bridge, New York ... (more)

Awaiting a pickup by the Battenkill Railroad, two former Saratoga & North Creek BL2s and a Greenwich & Johnsonville caboose are seen sitting at the interchange at Eagle Bridge, New York ... (more)

Former Saratoga North Creek BL2s 52 and 56 sit on the Battenkill Railroad/Pan AM Railways interchange in Eagle Bridge New York. The 2 units, once part of Ed Ellis' Iowa Pacific empire are now owne... (more)

One of fifty-nine BL2s produced, the 7172 and its slug are hard at work on a steamy June afternoon in 1981. The unit was built for the Western Maryland Railway in October, 1948, as their No. 82.

Two rare EMD relics from the past(and a caboose) sit silently awaiting their pick up from the Battenkill local(the run was cancelled today due to no loads delivered yet by the Pan Am) to head nor... (more)

On display at the 75th Anniversary Open House at General Motors Electro-Motive Division’s plant in Illinois is Janesville & Southern (a fictional railroad) 52, a BL-2. Built by EMD in March 194... (more)

A pair of the Monon's distinctive BL2s haul a Clearing Yard-Hammond transfer run through Pullman Junction in South Chicago. The EMD BL2, a late-1940s transitional model between cab units and road ... (more)

On a typical cloudy October day in the Adirondacks, the SNC passenger train gets ready to depart Hadley Station back to Saratoga with the rare BL2 leading.

82 leads a photo freight at High Falls on the former Western Maryland line between Elkins and Webster Springs.

The objective was to see my first BL-2 and the Bangor and Aroostook did not disappoint. There were three at Northern Maine Junction, including 53 which appears to have just come out of the paint ... (more)