All the three bridges seem to be built many years ago....nice capture...

Posted by Milind on 2009 Feb 22 14:18:10 +0000

Superb.

Posted by Lalam on 2009 Feb 22 11:53:26 +0000

Bharat, there were WAM-1 locos homed at SDAH. Pls Refer:
http://irfca.org/gallery/Steam/rmorris/roger_morris_diesel_electric/WAM1_20238CalcuttaSealdah25-2-92.jpg.html

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2009 Feb 05 07:09:03 +0000

Those 'D' shaped buffers bring a lot of Nostalgic memories back

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2009 Feb 05 06:09:34 +0000

is this the 5 paisa stamp engine??

Posted by Aseem Johri on 2009 Feb 04 20:37:23 +0000

Jimmy, these were WAMs, not WAGs.
Zubin: I think your confusing these with the WAG2's that were based at BSL. Those were scrapped in the late 90s.
Anamitra - was SDAH ever a homing shed? I thought it was only a trip shed.

Posted by Bharat Vohra on 2009 Feb 04 18:30:06 +0000

A couple of these were there at BSL ( Scrapped) say about five years back.

Posted by Zubin J Dotivala on 2009 Feb 04 17:11:17 +0000

I suppose this is the same loco seen here:
http://irfca.org/gallery/Locos/Electric/wag1_2_3_4/umax42.jpg.html

Look at the ancient coach behind it

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Feb 04 08:38:27 +0000

Sachin bhai, this BBM/1 classification is based on the french classification for this class. These later became the WAG 1 series loco. They were originally imported from SNCF, france. Note the european style buffer and side window. You can see a pic of this loco here:

http://irfca.org/gallery/Locos/Electric/wag1_2_3_4/umax43.jpg.html

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Feb 04 08:36:07 +0000

Bharat, this livery was unique to the whole ER. Even MGS (under ER) shed's WAM-4/WAG-5 locos had the same livery.

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2009 Feb 04 06:24:56 +0000