CARGO FOR INDIA
PHILADELPHIA: A locomotive is swung aboard the Indian freighter `Alaketu' at Port Richmond, Aug. 26th. It's one of four in `The Cargo', the first to be completed for India by the Baldwin Locomotive Works since before the war.
Credit (Acme Photo) 1947-08-27

[Note the presence of Indian Fitters in the back row who would probably be involved in the re-assembly of the locomotives in India]

Date: 2010-07-27
Owner: Harsh Vardhan
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Date/Time 2010 Jul 27 20:23:47 +0100
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It's a splendid photo Harsh! Quite an unusual angle and perspective too.

Nimish: no WP were built in the UK. The first 16 WP , later WP/P 7200-7215 were built by Baldwin in 1947. Others were later built in Canada, Poland and Austria as...
Posted by John Lacey on 2010 Aug 15 12:41:10 +0100
Would these be the prototypes which were later indigenously built as the WP class by CLW ?
Posted by Manohar Natarajan on 2010 Jul 30 12:15:11 +0100
Hey! I never knew that we imported locomotives from the US. I thought they all came from the UK. I was so grossly wrong.
Posted by Nimish Goray on 2010 Jul 29 09:44:59 +0100
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