Wonderful wonderful shot! Picture postcard stuff!! Howrah mail was the first train to be deiselized touching SER. The first train in SR to be deiselized was MAS-CHTS Mail. During the WDM 1 days, the loco of HWH mail used to proceed further till CHTS. Later, both trains used to run on WDM 2 locos from Gooty for many years. Later in 1969, Erode shed was opened.

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2010 Aug 28 10:29:13 +0000

Very nice, please upload more from this area.

Posted by Samar on 2010 Aug 28 09:05:44 +0000

Beautiful

Posted by Lalam on 2010 Aug 28 08:43:15 +0000

Few days back, Deepak Murali blew half of my brain off with a diesel+ monsoon combo, now Arzan blows the other half off with an electric+monsoon combo. Wonderful stuff

Posted by Abhijnan Ray on 2010 Aug 28 08:36:38 +0000

excellent shot!!! beauty!!!

Posted by Bhaveen Patel on 2010 Aug 28 08:36:04 +0000

Its WCM2...WCM1 had door in the center

Posted by Devraj Malekar on 2010 Aug 28 04:28:58 +0000

Congrats... 33 comments on a single pic...
may be this is a History in itself...

Posted by Tushar Dhake on 2010 Aug 27 17:25:46 +0000

nice shot... nice appartment in back ground also...

Posted by Sreeraj Ramachandran Nair on 2010 Aug 27 09:17:42 +0000

Super shot by super railfan....

Posted by Devraj Malekar on 2010 Aug 27 09:05:09 +0000

171/172 did not allow passengers betwen BCT and NDLS in those days. From BCT, the shortest point allowed was Ambala Jn!

Posted by Shirish Paranjape on 2010 Aug 27 07:54:53 +0000