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Rarest spotting of the season!!
A Kalyan WCM-6 # 20188 lying dead at Kiratgarh station near Itarsi on the ET-NGP secion of Central Railways, my train 16093 MAS-LKO Express came to a 2min unscheduled halt here for dropping the two LP's which were seen moving towards the WCM-6 as my train started from there! (Ujjawal Kashyap)

Date: 2012-06-20
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Make Panasonic Model DMC-FZ35
Aperture Value f/4.4 Color Space sRGB
Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Program
Flash No Flash Focal Length 86.4 mm
ISO 400 Metering Mode Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value 1/125 sec Digital Zoom Ratio 0
Date/Time 2012 Jun 20 07:32:03 +0000

Recent comments

bful catch...

Posted by Abhishek Kashyap trainman on 2012 Jul 07 10:41:18 +0000

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In all probability, the loco has been sent for departmental duties in the CR ghat section south of Itarsi. That said, why would CR send an inferior loco to do duty on difficult terrain , especially when the nearest shed capable of handling this loco is ...

In all probability, the loco has been sent for departmental duties in the CR ghat section south of Itarsi. That said, why would CR send an inferior loco to do duty on difficult terrain , especially when the nearest shed capable of handling this loco is 500km plus away?

Posted by Shashanka Nanda on 2012 Jul 05 13:27:34 +0000

This is the only DC loco class that got converted to pure AC operations. Post AC conversion, the performance should be on par with a WAG7.

Posted by Apurva Bahadur on 2012 Jul 05 13:24:14 +0000

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