Very pitiable sight for a Railfan like me who always loved and will always love this Locomotive, CR should preserve at least 4 to 5 units of WCG-2 and keep a special short section energized to 1500V equipped with a Static Electrical Neutral Zone which can be switched back over to 25000V AC (Similar to Igatpuri), my only concern is these units can be a case study to future Electrical Engineers as these Locomotives are the last one's on whole of IR to have Resistor speed regulation, rest all Locomotives use Tap Changer Method to Regulate their speed.

Posted by Kaushik Dharwadkar on 2010 Nov 06 02:15:21 +0000

A very sad thing to see, I second you "this Locomotive once ruled the Mumbai Area".

Posted by Kaushik Dharwadkar on 2010 Nov 06 02:03:25 +0000

This Locomotive was so unique on whole of IR network such that it had its unique wheel arrangement and the use of white metal bearings in the power transmission rods, thank you for sharing this pic.........:-):-):-)

Posted by Kaushik Dharwadkar on 2010 Nov 06 01:59:26 +0000

Hey Vijay! Thanks for sharing this photo.

Posted by Deep Soni on 2010 Nov 05 10:18:35 +0000

Sad to see these locomotives rotting away when some of their foreign counterparts with 1C+C1 bogies are still going strong on heritage lines. Please see
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=248769&nseq=1

Posted by R Viswa Chandra on 2010 Nov 05 08:26:40 +0000

And he looks better than he did when he first came out of CLW!

Posted by Dr. Himagirish Rao on 2010 Nov 05 02:20:40 +0000

Pristine! All the new ones and those freshly POHed have grease applied on the buffers. :) To ward off the evil eye?

Posted by Dr. Himagirish Rao on 2010 Nov 05 02:16:41 +0000

A lot of respect goes out to guys who maintain these machines. LGD definately seems to have its locos in imaculate condition.

Posted by Anant K Singh on 2010 Nov 04 17:23:22 +0000

Nice shot!!

Posted by Alex P. John on 2010 Nov 04 13:10:54 +0000

Nice shot!!

Posted by Alex P. John on 2010 Nov 04 13:10:22 +0000