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Gatimaan Express: Raftaar meri Pehchaan - Sajid Akhtar

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Blog Entry# 997090
Posted: Feb 16 2014 (01:24)

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Feb 16 2014 (01:24)   11078/Jhelum Express | BPL/Bhopal Junction (6 PFs)
 
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Superb #Offlink Parrot Green #WAG-9 of #Bhilaai Shed brought Jhelum Express to BPL on pf 1 :P
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Feb 16 2014 (21:38)
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Well, Wiki se jo uthaya h, woh thoda incomplete bhi h. :-)
in fact, this is one of the earliest n first locomotive in India to have 6280 Hp. when these landed in coast in year 1988, ABB was developing the next generation locomotives called WAP-5/WAG-9 in Ad Tranz, Swiss.
ASEA later collaborated with Brown Boveri, combined to b called today as ABB.
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only loco to come with VCD, Microprocessor from foreign nation n also equipped with Thyristor Controls, which doesn't exist in any Indian Locomotive til date, except for its next gen WAG-9.
These locos are heavier than WAG-9's too, max speed on the helm is 120, were actually pinned to upgrade to 160 km/h, but it was too late, and the next gen locos came to our land. :-)
WAG-6A's are 25 years now, exactly of my age.
WAG-6B/C's came around in 1990's.

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