Absolutely stunning...

Posted by Bhushan Kale on 2012 May 24 12:21:45 +0000

Yes, brilliant snap!
And the KK did have a beautiful livery back then...I remember seeing this livery as late as 1986-87. I'd been to SBC to receive my aunt, who returned from Dharamshala. It was an evening arrival. Then, the KK fell off a bridge over the 'Kabana nallah' somewhere in the Chambal ghats...after that, the livery changed to the Rajdhani-like red-cream-red one. Then, in the early 90s, the KK and many other SFEs across IR took on a cream-maroon livery. After that came the present one...

Posted by Dr. Himagirish Rao on 2012 May 24 11:39:06 +0000

The name board reads "Bombay Mail". Wonder which one it is, Howrah/Bombay (ER/BNR) or Madras-Bombay Mail?

Posted by Bodhisattva Sengupta on 2012 May 24 08:06:51 +0000

Our 20 DN Gorakhpur Howrah Express (now 3020 Kathgodam-Howrah Bagh Express) was powered by one of these beasts in 1987. In those times, there was an loco change(diesel-electric) at Asansol, where WAM2/1 took over. I have never seen these at ASN, so there must be another loco change (diesel-diesel)at Barauni.

Posted by Bodhisattva Sengupta on 2012 May 24 08:02:06 +0000

Can someone tell me if that coach in the background is the Mahalaxmi Express? or was it the Secunderabad Exp livery?

Posted by John Mani on 2012 May 24 03:22:56 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing.

Posted by Vivek Mishra on 2012 May 24 02:32:37 +0000

The most Majestic looking locomotive of Indian railways...people who have seen these will surely agree to my views...Thanks Mr Mark Carter for sharing this pic..

Posted by Devraj Malekar on 2012 May 23 15:19:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing because, I have not seen any of them!!!

Posted by Chitrarth Parghi on 2012 May 23 05:14:28 +0000

Churchgate outer with the background of Wankhede stadium!!!

Posted by Chitrarth Parghi on 2012 May 23 05:11:52 +0000

IR and its infatuation with deiselization!!! What was the need to deiselize Neral-Matheran line?

Posted by Anurag Bist on 2012 May 23 04:56:40 +0000