Lovely silhouette that captures the atmosphere of a steam shed with all its clutter and noise.

Posted by Mick Pope on 2007 Jan 11 23:43:33 +0000

Many thanks for the comments. Trailing loco is a Shakthi in the 13xxx series. Its quite grainy as I had to increase ISO to keep camera steady at this focal lenght(600).

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jan 11 17:58:52 +0000

Its not KZJ but ERS. A really nice photo as the orange compliments the green.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jan 11 17:56:07 +0000

Awesome shot man! Was the trailing loco a shakti???

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2007 Jan 11 13:36:39 +0000

An apt song these two garish diesel beasts can question each other: The Who's "Who are you?"

Posted by Sundar Krishnamurthy on 2007 Jan 10 20:22:20 +0000

A short search for this locomotive yielded a match <a href="http://images4.fotopic.net/?iid=yxzlpq&noresize=1&nostamp=1&quality=70">here</a>.

Posted by Sundar Krishnamurthy on 2007 Jan 10 20:17:07 +0000

Does Agra REALLY have a loco shed?

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 Jan 10 03:06:21 +0000

WCAM3 #21889 seems to be the regular power for the IC. Co-incidently, this same loco had done the inaugural run of the 2128 IC from Pune. My IC of 16th December 2006 had it as well!!

Posted by Kharad Zarir Variyava on 2007 Jan 09 19:55:16 +0000

The steepest gradients are between Akathumuri (a small halt station after Kadakavur) and Varkala. A WDM3A will typically slow down to around 50 km/hr with a 22 coach load even at full throttle. I wonder what speed a WAP1 will go at in this section.

Posted by Jagadheep D on 2007 Jan 08 23:25:05 +0000

Shakurbasti seems to have switched to a toned-down livery for its WDS-4s.

Posted by Gautam on 2007 Jan 08 16:30:51 +0000