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
Recent comments
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...
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 well as another 100 in the USA. Yes, locos had been imported from the USA before 1900.
Manohar: Yes, basically. The WP/P were the prototypes, then came WP, then the CLW locos were WP/I.
Posted by John Lacey on 2010 Aug 15 11:41:10 +0000
Would these be the prototypes which were later indigenously built as the WP class by CLW ?
Posted by Manohar Natarajan on 2010 Jul 30 11:15:11 +0000
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 08:44:59 +0000