WR's 1st ever ICF 25000V AC EMU 12car rake 4001-4004. Seen here is 4002B Motor / Cab coach. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

WR's 6th Retrofitted Pure AC 25000V AC EMU, striking pose for me. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

IR's only 13 coach EMU approaches Lonavala. Note that now the notice on the cab face also reads "13 coach rake" instead of "12 coach rake". This rake has 5 motorcoaches instead of the regular 4. (Akshay Marathe)

As the dark clouds gather Lonavla bound retro fitted EMU races past Sangam bridge towards Shivaji Nagar for its next halt. (Ashwin Rao)

9th ACDC retrofitted EMU - Mostly from Sanpada Carshed, this time. If yes, then this is the 1st ever retrofitted EMU from Sanpada Carshed. 76559-76553 retrofitted / converted from erstwhile DC EMU to ACDC EMU, seen at Thane. IN focus is the 76553 cab faci

9th ACDC retrofitted EMU - Mostly from Sanpada Carshed, this time. If yes, then this is the 1st ever retrofitted EMU from Sanpada Carshed. 76559-76553 retrofitted / converted from erstwhile DC EMU to ACDC EMU, seen at Thane. In focus is the 76559 cab faci

A comparison of 76553 DC EMU coach, and its new avatar while after getting retrofitted into ACDC EMU with conventional electrics. Thanks to Karthik Gopalan for capturing the 76553 EMU while in DC mode, and the other pic of 76553 in new livery shows it aft

Chennai Beach bound EMU silently departs Mambalam station on a lazy Sunday morning. (Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer)

Retrofitted EMU captured between Lonavala and Pune at Dehu Road. (CG)

Closeup of Motor coach 3012B of retofitted AC rake 3009-3012 of WR, waiting to enter the DN slow line at MX. The roof of the motor coaches of this rake, have not been dished. Yet, they were tested on WR mainline on Feb5 2012 -the day when ADH-CCG went AC.

Historic day for WR, 5-2-12, 6 MRVC lineup at BYR EMU yard. One cannot see 6 MRVC lined-ed up in a day time even though it is Sunday or Holiday. Thanks to power outage due to which these creatures standing all together. (Amit Patel)

The Motor Coach of the newly inaugurated Retrofitted ACDC EMU of CR. Note the following:
1. Panto is of single arm type with twin blade / pan, but of MRVC 2xxx type.
2. As I had told earlier, one entrance is gone, to accomodate the HT...

First service of retrofitted EMU on Mumbai division of CR (Rajendra Aklekar)

First service of retrofitted EMU on Mumbai division of CR at CST station (Rajendra Aklekar)

Here you see Central Railway's 2 versions of retrofitted ACDC EMU. Seen on left in Red - Grey with 2 yellow stripes livery is the 1st Retrofitted ACDC EMU 3004C using transformer-rectifier technology preserving its earlier DC system And on the right is 30