Puzzle Picture. Can anyone identify the line and loco in this picture taken in Southern India in 1980? Clue - it is not an IR line. Mick Pope.
Date: 2005-09-09
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Puzzle Picture. Can anyone identify the line and loco in this picture taken in Southern India in 1980? Clue - it is not an IR line. Mick Pope.
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Congratulations Harsh, you are correct. It is Mysore I&S and the loco a 2' gauge 2-8-2, Kitson built in 1922.I don't think they ran a public passenger service.
Posted by Gallery Administrator on 2005 Sep 29 22:39:20 +0000
I should rather say this is an Ex IR ES class loco, during the time this picure was shot. Looks like it is handling a mixed passenger. Private railways operated passengers too?
Posted by Gallery Administrator on 2005 Sep 29 14:35:46 +0000
Looks like pacific ES class loco used in Bangalore-Bangarapet line. See pic here:
http://www.irfca.org/photos/RobDickinsonSteam/Slide34
Posted by Gallery Administrator on 2005 Sep 29 14:32:13 +0000