One of these days I'll have to finish this....

[tarrant75]

Just a thread showing stuff that one day, I hope, I'll have time and patience to finish...

C39-8 Screenshot 2026-10-17 195430.png

B39-8
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Australian NSW mark 1 48 class
Mark 1_a.jpg


BL20-2
BL20-2.jpg

[dcarleton]

Love that BL20-2 - The unit which turned out to be the cure for which there was no disease....

[NW 2156]

Love the C39-8 - Awesome early GE diesels! Would be cool to have it hauling coal on the NS Pokey route.

[CSRX]

The B39 would be excellent for my North East repaints.

Not sure what the BL20-2 could be for, though I imagine I could whip something up fictional wise. Haha.

[Orbita]

Well I'm all for the C39-8 in CR Blue. Perhaps a few modifications and it would work as a C32-8 that Big Blue had as well.

[UP6706]

Is it just me or is the BL20-2 a forgotten locomotive because no railroads bought it?

[CSRX]

Probably has something to do with poor electrical reliability(shocker).

The EMD BL20-2 is a model of diesel electric locomotive produced by Electro-Motive Diesel in 1992. The locomotives were designed as rebuilds of the EMD GP9 with the addition of new technology, including an alternator and electronics equivalent to those of the Dash 2 line of locomotives.^[1][2] Despite the BL prefix, these locomotives were unrelated to the earlier EMD BL2.

EMD produced three BL20-2 demonstrators numbered 120–122, but no customers could be found for the model, which was competing in a saturated rebuilt locomotive market.

[pschlik]

I see those pre-1987 dash 8s and my mind goes to the MoPac C36-7s. Weird things with the round cab roof but boxy hood...as much as that style is distinctive, I think it was overall for the best that they embraced the boxyness.

[tarrant75]

Something else to work on.... Screenshot 2026-10-24 121905.png

[Orbita]

I know that kind of coilcar anywhere! I still see them out on the NS Chicago-Toledo line.

[jbtower]

All of your latest creations are amazing, Chris, and all are unique. The camelbacks are definitely one we don't have represented, that Australian NSW is badass and the BL20-2, somewhere I have a picture of two of them running on the racetrack. The coil car would be awesome addition to anyones car collection

[scottb613]

Something else to work on....

Hi Chris,

Hah - many of us know the feeling - nice work.


Is that Blender or do you model in something else?

Regards,
Scott

[Fwwr2248]

Those c39s would look pretty snazzy dressed up in the FCCA from Peru, with the 1032 being painted in Conrail. Pretty neat content keep up the work bud.