The Dark Knight Rests in Charbagh Workshop of Northern Railway, Lucknow...

This loco was made in 1959. Manufacturer is one among Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW), Baldwin Locomotive Works or Canadian Locomotive Company. All the WP locos built by these companies' 1959 batches fall in 7216-7515 range.
Out of total 755 WP in the IR fleet, Canadian Locomotive Company built 200 (CLW 259) and MLW built 120. Total 320 Canadian WPs in all. Baldwin made only 116 ( WP is originally their model though). Rest sixty WPs were built by Fabryka Lokomotyw (30) of Austria and Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf of Poland (30) (Santulan Mahanta)

Date: 2012-12-22
Owner: Santulan Mahanta
Size:
Full size: 1500x1000
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Photo Properties
Summary  Details
Make NIKON Model COOLPIX P500
Aperture Value f/5.7 Color Space sRGB
Exposure Program Program Flash No Flash
ISO 160 Metering Mode Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value 1/200 sec Digital Zoom Ratio 0
Date/Time 2012 Dec 22 14:16:41 +0000
Comments
Thanks for the info Harsh sir. I was not sure about the builder
Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2013 Jan 18 16:28:18 +0000
WP 7278 (MLW 77360) was amongst the second batch of WP class locomotives built for East Indian Railway by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1949 after the first batch of prototype WP/P supplied by Baldwin in 1947 were deemed successful.
Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2013 Jan 18 02:53:22 +0000
Sameerji it was shot on the shortest day of 2012
Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2013 Jan 13 17:33:24 +0000
WoW!!!

Is the picture retrieved from some old archive or it's the latest one..?
Posted by Sameer Bhatnagar on 2013 Jan 12 13:18:55 +0000
Put this guy back to work!!!
Posted by Anurag Bist on 2012 Dec 27 07:28:44 +0000
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