Re: [CBQ] Re: BLI NW-2 Issue 2946 and 2947

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

That's not the only discrepancy.  Leaving aside the straight frame skirts (which are incorrect for all NW2s and did not appear until the SW9 in 11/50), the BLI model is clearly a Phase V NW2 (built between 2/49 and 12/49), which does not have the frame "falsies," does not have the flat area on the hood in front of the cab, but does have the six sets of 4/13 hood side louvers.  CB&Q 9244 and 9245 were Phase II NW2s built 8/46, and should have the flat step on the hood, frame "falsies," and no hood side louvers.

The BLI model would be correct if numbered 9248, CB&Q's only Phase V NW2.

msw

largofl

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:20 AM, wgstack276@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I was intrigued by Nelson's discovery of the error in the logo on the BLI NW2 fireman's side hood. I checked to see if I had any that might have still been unboxed, but I didn't. So I looked on BLI's website for the particular model numbers, 2946 and 2947, that is CB&Q numbers 9244 and 9245. If you go to each model page, and click on the "View More Images"  for each model, you get the enlarged picture of each model on both sides, you find that "Way of the Zephyrs" is on both sides of the hood on both models displayed on the web page.

This was a discrepancy that apparently slipped by a lot of people on a lot of levels.

Bill Stack

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Posted by: Michael Woodruff <mwoodruff54@gmail.com>

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