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Blog Entry# 1611785
Posted: Oct 08 2015 (23:34)

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Oct 08 2015 (23:34)   CRJ/Chittaranjan (3 PFs)
 
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*********** GLORIOUS LOCOMOTIVE HISTORY OF IR(DC LOCOS & AC-DC LOCOS) *********
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1 A WCG/2 running light at Kamshet near Lonavla. Note the 'LV' plate on the buffer beam.(3rd Image in the Link provided below)
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Back to the straight dc engines: A nose job? Close-up of the nose of WCM/2 20177. Note that the engine has just undergone a nose job: the top part of the nose has been cut open, and then crudely sealed with tar.(18 th Image in the Link Provided below)
3 A goods version of the WCAM/3 is now (2000) coming in, classed WCAG/1. Here, a pair of WCAG/1s run through Poona Jn. in July 2000, returning light to Kalyan after having brought in a heavy freight train from Bombay.(17 th Image in the Link provided below)
4 Prior to the advent of the WCAM/3s were the dual current WCAM/2 class. These units however work at a substantially lower power in dc territory, and are now confined to the Western Railway lines out of Bombay Central, which serve a relatively level line, unline those out of Bombay VT, which encounter the arduous ghat lines of Bhore and Thull. Here a WCAM/2P is seen at Virar on the WR. She is hauling the Ranakpur Express to Bikaner.(16 th Image in the Link Provided below)
5 As replacements for all the WCM class of engines are these sturdy bi-current WCAM/3 locomotives, outshopped in 1997. They now handle all passenger services in the Bombay area, which is now under conversion to 25000 V ac. Against a backdrop of the Le Meredian Hotel, a WCAM/3 21942 is seen here leaving Poona in July 2000 with the Bangalore-Bombay Udyan Express.(15 th Image in the Link Provided below)
6 WCM/3 # 20073 prepares to leave Poona in 1977 with the local train to Lonavla. Initially built for the 3000 V dc lines out of Calcutta, these engines were transferred to the Bombay area after conversion of the Calcutta area to 25000 V ac.(13 th Image in the Link Provided below)
7 An elderly Crocodile WCG/1 (EF/1) enters Bombay VT in May 1992 with the empty rake of the Deccan Queen for the train's 1710 departure to Poona.(7 th Image in the Link Provided below)
8 Active blast from the past: an elderly crocodile WCG/1 (EF/1) performing shunting duties at Lonavla in 1980(26 th Image in the Link Provided below)
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Oct 10 2015 (22:08)
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It was a very odd hour spotting as well..........................I de-boarded at MAS at 3:00AM from the 13351 DHN-ALLP express,
and a silvery blue colour WDM-4 just stood at the adjoining platform, just by itself...........maybe coming off as an off-link......or waiting to be latched on an express train..........Who knows?????
That was my first & only WDM-4 spotting till now...................
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