Talk:EMD BL2

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EMD BL2 was a good article, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Delisted version: May 13, 2007
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Pending tasks for EMD BL2:

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  • Add a roster of BL2s and the railroads that they were sold to.
  • Find the serial numbers that are as yet unknown in the roster of first sales.
  • Add to the preserved BL2 list.
  • Expand the technical specifications.
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo

I have read that the BL1 Demo #499 had an air throttle. This was not an accepted railroad practice at the time and the air throttle was replaced with a mechanical throttle making it the equivalent of a BL2 before sale to the C&EI. See Extra 2200 South issue #46 pp 21-24 for BL1/BL2 photos and discussion. --SSW9389 17:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thread from Trains.com posted by Fritz Milhaupt detailing the difference between BL1 and BL2. "In John Paton's Chespapeake & Ohio BL2 Diesels (C&OHS, 1991), he explains the difference between the BL1 and the BL2 as being that the BL1 had an air-actuated throttle, while the BL2 was the version built with an electrically-actuated throttle like that used on the F3.

BL1 demonstrator #499 (EMD project #89499) was built and demonstrated with the air-actuated throttle, but all production models had the conventional electrically-activiated throttles which permitted them to be MUed with other locomotives. #499 was converted to an electrically-actuated throttle and equipped with MU hardware before its sale to the C&EI.

The C&O (which had the largest fleet of BL2s of any road) found that MUing BL2s put a good deal of strain on the frames, leading to frame cracking problems. Minor cracks were just patch-welded, but major frame cracking took BL2 #84 out of service for good by 1959." --SSW9389 (talk) 20:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Good Article Review

This article is currently at Good Article Review. LuciferMorgan 02:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Delisted from the Good Article list

This article has been delisted per consensus discussion at Good Article Review. The archived results of the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Good article review/Archive 18. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 05:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)