It would be three things that have piled on for BLI: they got mired in yet another court case with MTH in 2011, with the latter bringing the suit over smoke generator technology. MTH lost, but it put a damper on BLI's overall morale and financial situation. Secondly, beginning in 2008, BLI had several different runs of different locomotives where the QA was poor...to say the least. They lost their shirts on refunds and repairs. They had to dump stock to recoup, and it really hurt their bottom line. The final problem was a lack of enthusiasm for the UP 9000 series. For one, the markets crashed and many lost their hourly paid jobs as businesses closed, and also MTH had beat them to the market with their own (silly) articulated version, but such locomotives are costly due to their production costs being higher, as brass hybrids, than for the less costly plastic shells. So, the orders haven't been there for BLI. I don't know what combination has made BLI decide to go ahead, but my guess wouldn't be a sudden interest and several dozen more orders. I think they've recovered a lot of ground with shrewd investing, mostly by bringing to market popular former releases where the first run or two were good and sold out, and where they held prices somewhat in control. They are now doing well with cash reserves, my guess only, and can afford to tackle some of the more iffy and delayed items. Notable are the the Santa Fe 2-10-2 modernized version and the UP 4-12-2. But, not only them, BLI recently announced they'd take orders for a Pennsy S2 Turbine, certainly an ambitious project. All these developments, plus the Pennsy 2-8-0 coming soon, tell me that BLI has regained its momentum and its intent to dominate the steam market.