YAM-1 MG Electrics

New rulers of Tambaram - YDM 4's wait impatiently like horses readying for the night battle and the BG EMU peeping from the distance

The cab of 21922 is full of batteries

YAM 1's cute little Bo-Bo bogies. So very different from the BG electric Co-Co's

Maybe this stage was made to do the ceremony to give peace to the departed soul of YAM 1's

What I was searhing for - the "HMT" builders plate. Hitachi-Mitsubishi-Toshiba. I had to scratch the paint off. The remaining paint was just refusing o go

YAM 1 parts piled up in front of the office of Tambaram Shed

Parts of the MG EMU. Fully locked up. Where are the driving trailers??

The doors. Are they shut forever?

MG couplings. Power cables have been removed

The other YAM 1 21922 is in a much better condition. Someone told that it is going to be preserved next to the YCG 1 in front of the station

If you remove the bushes in the background, you will never say that this loco is decommissioned

Soon to be gone for ever. YAM 1 21913 will be history soon. May your parts find good value in the scrap market

Moving on to the other YAM 1 and a piece of MG EMU. The newly renovated shed towers over thier earlier tenants. The newly plastered wall in the background were once the shutters used by MG locos. Now it has been dummed forever, the YAM 1's have been dr

Song bird, feels like it is singing a tune

Guages destined for scrap market. Dont know where the brake levers will go

Corridor to the other cab from the Assistant driver's side. The entire machinery is neatly arranged with nice doors. I did not go in since the man who came with me told there are lot o snakes that come to gulp the lubricants in the room

This is the corridor from the driver's side. The compressor and reservoir are quite small in size

How many caution orders he would have read under this light. How many times he would have held the walkie and talked to the guard.... Feels as if the driver who will never arrive, has gone outside to check the loco...

Behind the driver are many switches neatly packed inside this glass almirah type door. I have not seen such a door in an AC loco

Things that you would do on a regular footplate, view complete with OHE mast

Another view a railfan will take when footplating. The guy in the backgound is an employee of the scrap dealer

YAM 1 21913 up close. This loco is to be broken down shortly. Scrap dealers who had waited for the rains to get over had come today to study it. One of them broke the window.

Shattered dreams.... The YAM 1's had an unusually long panto.

Inside the cab of 21913. These locos had a very nice console. This is the drivers side. Compare this with the BG AC loco console. This is very neat

This is the assistant drivers side

This is how the driver saw the world in front of him. Sitting in his seat

Where else could you find such nicely drafted instructions to the driver?? During the time YAM 1's were operational, they were called drivers and not loco pilots!