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I'm not sure of your question, "What is it?", or "What is it for?", so I'll answer both. <br />EMD stands for: Electro-Motive Division (of General Motors). BL-2, stands for Branch Line, model 2. EMD led the way into dieseldom with the very popular series of F-units (F3 thru F9). These were great road locomotives, but were very hard to switch, as the engineer could not easily see behind him. The BL series (I believe there was only 1 BL-1, and nothing after the 2's) was EMD's first attemp at the "roadswitcher" concept, a locomotive that was equally at home on the road, or switching. This is why the car body on the BL series slopes away from the windows to give the enginner a better view to the rear. They were not sucuessful for the most part. But EMD's next attempt was a "grand slam", the GP-7. <br />MOPAC 1
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