One of our members has claimed that he saw a BL-2 moving on an eastbound freight through northern Indiana recently. The only locomotive that I think this could possibly be is the BL-2 that was privately owned and formerly at Janesville, Wisconsin. Anyone out there that could confirm (or kill) this rumor?

Thanks!

midlandblb@cs.com

Those two Bl-2's were stored at the NRM at Green Bay, Wisconsin all last summer. One was still in BAR paint, the other in the Wisconsin Southern scheme. I was told that NRM was just storing until the family decided what to do with them. The 3 F-Units from the Monhardt collection were there as well (circa August of last year).

TJ Gaffney

> One of our members has claimed that he saw a
> BL-2 moving on an eastbound freight through
> northern Indiana recently. The only
> locomotive that I think this could possibly
> be is the BL-2 that was privately owned and
> formerly at Janesville, Wisconsin. Anyone
> out there that could confirm (or kill) this
> rumor?

> Thanks!


Port Huron Museum
tjgaffney@phmuseum.org

The two BL-2's that were stored in Green Bay, Wisconsin belong to Clint Jones now, and my understanding is that they were available for lease (as with his other assorted historic diesels). I know there were efforts to try to return one of them back east, so that may be the one that was spotted in Indiana.

Boyd


bowens@rypn.org

> The two BL-2's that were stored in Green
> Bay, Wisconsin belong to Clint Jones now,
> and my understanding is that they were
> available for lease (as with his other
> assorted historic diesels). I know there
> were efforts to try to return one of them
> back east, so that may be the one that was
> spotted in Indiana.
I was at the Green Bay Museum today, March 13th, and both BL-2's are still there.


eselinsky@new.rr.com

> I was at the Green Bay Museum today, March
> 13th, and both BL-2's are still there.

Ed:

Thanks for clearing that up.

Les


midlandblb@cs.com