'Kit-Bashed' BL Transfer Locomotive

Sam,

I love it! I am saving this for a possible future project. It is beautiful but I am a BL2 fan anyway.

Malcolm

I like!  It looks very Pennsy-esque, with styling similar to the P5a or GG1.

Amazing!!  I am a fan of the BL-2, especially in Western Maryland livery.  Splicing two together back to back certainly gives the close impression of the GG-1; and in Pennsy colors!  I'll say Jerry is talented and imaginative!  Bravo!!

 

Thanks for posting those photos, Sam!!

That is something else!!!

Great looking engine.

nicely done!

A very interesting piece - looks sort of like a cross between a Baldwin transfer engine and a GG-1. Do you have any information on the (proposed but unbuilt) prototype for this effort? I'd love to see the drawings that were used as the basis for this engine, and to know which locomotive builder designed it. 

C. Sam

 

Please pass along our highest compliments to Mr. Keys.  He has created a well executed and entirely plausible locomotive, and a good looking one too.

 

What does he call it?

 

Is it a BL-4? A BL-22?

 

With 500 HP per axle it would have been speedy.

 

I would love to see it in the cream and metallic blue demonstrator paint scheme.

 

If he took the leftover pieces of the shells and mounted them on a single power truck the result should be called the BLeep. 

Very cool! 

Nicely done.  Jim

That's a really cool engine.  I have the MTH Pennsy 2500HP Transfer engine he is pairing it with and it's one of my favorite engines. His creation really looks good with that engine or by itself. 

I have always thought, and expressed such on this forum, that the BLx was the UGLIEST locomotive ever produced.  I'll let these pictures do the talking.

 

 

 

 

 

If somebody had told me that a guy had kit-bashed a locomotive by joining two BL2 my first thought would be the worlds UGLIEST Siamese twins.  

However, after viewing the results on this thread I must say that I am VERY impresses and the result is actually appealing.

 

I salute Jerry Keys for a job WELL DONE! 

Very cool

 

What a beautiful conversion. Thanks for sharing, Sam.

Sam,  very nice !!!!

 

 

Alex

I love centercab engines and the Pennsy had great ones.

Too bad they missed out on this beauty!

Wonderful job.

WOW!  Now that is something original.  Very nice work.

 

Stuart

 

 

I also like centercabs and unique creations. This looks great. Can you tell me about how long it is? 

Oh, my. Such an obviously good bashing idea - so why didn't I and a lot of others think of it?

Funny how "obvious" often isn't.

 

Love it; just love it.

 

- diesel center-cab, as is 

- mount body on a GG1 (sub-scale, maybe?) - an electric

- but, the piece of resistance (almost French!) for me would be some "Alco"-style

Tri-mount trucks (as on a Weaver C-628 frame), remove the fans, add a coal bunker

to one end - and you would have a "Jawn Henry" steam turbine look. You know, like there was a smaller version.

 

Too cool, in any form.

I am in the odd position of thinking the BL-2 is an attractive and cool loco.  But for some reason, this bash does not grab me.   But very interesting and well done!!

Wow, amazing. For the life of me I can't see any evidence of the grafting.

Very cool!!!!
Mike

I believe the other locomotive is called a LT-2500 built by Lima-Hamilton. I'm pretty sure Eric did a review on that.

 

Great looking engine, by the way!

Very creative and nicely done! Love it!

Ken-Oscale -

 

Yes, your thinking is backwards and odd.

 

Mine, of course, is always Correct. Just ask me.

 

Actually, I can't say that I "like" the BL-2, but I do think that it, in it's natural state, gets

a lot more criticism than it deserves. It has some rather interesting shapes.

 

You want ugly? A chopped-nose GP-7 - in fact, any GP7/9 is of questionable esthetics. 

OK Diesel  and ESPEE fans.

 

Add some see through louvers and you have...

 

 

Ready?

 

A BLT

Wow! That is a really cool locomotive! Very unique.

Bravo!  You hit a home run Jerry.  I been a customer of Arnies when I lived in CA. The members of AGHR often took a road trip on a Saturday down there. One of the guys at club worked there his name was Mike.

Again Bravo, Thanks for posting Sam.

That is so cool. I like BL2s ( the immediate predecessor of the GP series) and I like the idea that in an alternate world the BL series continued.

looks great!

Sorry Doug,  I should have put a tape measure on it while it was there.

I would venture a guess at 22" - 28" long? Considerably longer than the Trainmaster that donated the chassis!

Great build. Thanks for sharing.

I've been thinking about doing something similar but have no idea how to nicely butt two plastic shells together. For the life of me I cannot see the seem. Any tips/hints?

I see one right through the center window.  He may have done some creative cutting below the roofline to keep the door etc.

 

With the proper use of filler you don't normally see seams, except when the light hits it the right way.

 

Excellent job.

 

Gene Anstine

Sam,

I keep coming back to this page to look at Jerry Keys' work.

Truly amazing.  Please tell him how much attention he's gotten here and KEEP HIM IN YOUR CLUB!  He's a treasure.

 

 

 

Yes, please!

 

Since I will be embarking on my own bashing projects (Franken-ALCo I & II...), learning how the shells and frames were so comfortably stitched together would be fantastic!

 

Thanks,

 

Mario