Chaitanya, you brought back such wonderful memories from my childhood when I used to watch these locos around Kurla all the time! Thanks!

The chassis looks fine to me. As long as the frame on which the superstructure sits is not bent or twisted, the loco shed should be able to get the loco running after building a new rear cab. The loco can be easily lifted and placed on a flat bed wagon as its not below a bridge or culvert. Decommissioning of a loco is a very long process as the Railway Board should consider it 'beyond repair' before the shed can even decommission the loco. The KJM loco at Sribagilu station was yet to be decommissioned when I last inquired about its status in August 2009. Its been lying below a bridge on the Subramanya ghat section since 2007.

This picture was taken in August 1995. Concrete sleepers were not very common in this area but are installed here because of leakage of diesel fuel.

... Sabarmati ke sant tune kar diya kamaal!!!

One of my favorite too... Thanks for uploading this!!!

Oh! How did I miss seeing this gem for so long! Great shot - thanks a lot for sharing...

Is this mega block for bridge repair, or is it for gauge conversion?

nice one!!!

wow!!! great shot..

you can see six rails on bridge . Three of them are running rails & other three are Guard rails

its MG & BG combined line on sabarmati river...
thaks to share with us...
for their rebuild work, WR ADI division declared MEGA block on MG line ADI to SBI, from 1st June to 10 june.