YAM-1 MG Electrics

the now extinct YAM-1 series of Metre Gauge Electric Locomotives.

Date: 2005-12-30
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 73 items
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Maybe this stage was made to do the ceremony to give peace to the departed soul of YAM 1's

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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

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

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

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The doors. Are they shut forever?

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MG couplings. Power cables have been removed

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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

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

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

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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

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Song bird, feels like it is singing a tune

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

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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

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

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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...