The dragons of the Sahyadri Hills - will go extinct in the Bhore Ghats in a few more weeks from now !!! An era will end and pass into history.

Posted by S. Srinivas on 2009 Dec 16 13:21:03 +0000

Even we too from Mumbai. The day immediately after AC conversion, I was blessed to see Twin WCG2 hauled freight at kanjurmarg, but then that was the last day. After that till date, no sign of it at all.

Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2009 Dec 16 08:51:54 +0000

Missing these around pune.

Posted by Jatin Bhavsar on 2009 Dec 16 08:22:23 +0000

My observation regarding the blue wagons is that they have the standard capacities of near about 70, 30, 20, which is also same in old BOXNs. Also most of these blue wagons observed by me were new and maximum belonged to ECR and SECR. I will get a close-up shot in some days for sure.

Posted by Samar on 2009 Dec 16 07:33:56 +0000

Nice image. Like the sharp curvature.

Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2009 Dec 16 07:19:21 +0000

Nimish , there is a Disel to Diesel , Pune WDMx to an indefinite WDMx loco change at Pune station. The loco going out with 1022 brings in the 1021. If the same loco takes the Karjat Passenger to Karjat that day , then there will be another Pune WDMx which will get attached to 1022 on the same day night , which inturn will again bring in the 1021 next morning.

Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2009 Dec 16 07:16:40 +0000

Jimmy, I think Shanx or Alok had mentioned in one of the photos that the blue BOXN are stainless steel wagons. Did you notice this difference?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2009 Dec 16 04:55:55 +0000

Nice curve

Posted by Aravind S on 2009 Dec 16 03:23:28 +0000

Nice shot

Posted by Alex P. John on 2009 Dec 16 03:16:38 +0000

Is IR is painting many of the BOXN rakes blue? Is it just a change in livery or a slightly different wagon class? They look like the older BOXN wagons. I spotted a blue BOXN coal train coming from CHTS the other day, with ED WDG3A twins in front and an ERS WDM 3A banker. The rake looked very nice with the blue ED WDG 3A twins. Nice pic by the way, no electric poles and many semaphores!

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Dec 16 00:57:34 +0000