दौड़ती है हिमालय तट से सागर, हमसफ़र हर राह पर, हवाई जहाज़ों को त्याग कर, करो अक्सर, भारतीय रेल में सफर. - Arpit P

Simply waste of power... they should send this with outgoing frieghts towards BSR/BSL... or WAG9 should lead the rake and WCAM3 should be dead because the regeneration capacity of three phase locomotives... its is optimum and efficient...

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Discussions with staff revealed following information: The locos (WAGx) which are due for scheduled maintenance (like IA/IB/IC Schedules or POH or AOH) or locos requiring repair / re-cabling or some such work, are sent as dead loco to BSL Electric Loco Shed using Pune-BSL Exp. When such loco comes to Pune, TLC (Train Loco Controller) can not take the risk of using this loco as main / driving loco. Failure en-route will lead to delays / traffic congestion or in worst case can even cause some kind of accident, etc. If such thing happens, higher authorities will ask why that loco was used to haul the train (Exp or Goods). So, instead of taking all these risks, sending the loco as a dead loco is safest option. The works which BSL ELS does can be seen at the URL click here

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Grt piece of information... Thanks brthr....

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