YDM-4 looks great......@Abhinav Phangcho Choudhury: Request you to please upload that pic of two white liveried YDM4 locos of Rangapara North [RPAN] Diesel Loco Shed at Rangiya Junction, Assam.

Posted by Ujjwal Kashyap on 2012 Jan 25 09:18:24 +0000

Nice catch! I'm so thrilled to see BRC logo on the side panel. Hope more P5/7 follow 30046 to BRC.

Posted by Anant K Singh on 2012 Jan 24 07:48:09 +0000

Nice coverage. welcome to IRFCA San2lan

Posted by Dhirendra Maurya on 2012 Jan 23 16:07:17 +0000

@ Apurva, there was a plan as long back as the 90s to air-brake the freight stock working the Barak Valley Section. I'm guessing some of that has been put into action, hence the need for dual braked YDM4s.

Posted by Bharat Vohra on 2012 Jan 23 16:01:16 +0000

Very nice rare coverage of LMG shed.

Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2012 Jan 23 14:37:41 +0000

Nice catch and capture too.

Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2012 Jan 23 14:35:37 +0000

Apurvaji those are not flat wagons, but boggies of the scrapped locos... This is inside the locoshed compound.

Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2012 Jan 23 14:31:11 +0000

@Apurva Bahadurji, LMG has several of its YDM-4 locos fitted with dual brakes. About some Mr. Dan Cross has updated in the IRFCA loco database and several others I found in the Lumding locoshed itself marked with "Dual Brake" on the cab. Perhaps for safety point of view in the hill section with some steep gradients. The stretch of 11 miles from Harangajao upto the northslope of the Jatinga Valley has a ruling gradient of 1 in 37 which was later reduced to 1 in 43 on 10 degree curves.

Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2012 Jan 23 14:20:21 +0000

Sidwal make air-conditioner on the roof.

Posted by Apurva Bahadur on 2012 Jan 23 08:47:19 +0000

@ Abhinav, Yes Shanti Exp now regularly hauled by BRC WAP 5 link from Vadodara to Gandhinagar only.

Posted by Bhaveen Patel on 2012 Jan 23 08:27:43 +0000