When we finally started down the Ghats, these four locos resembled a completely loaded freight train: full of equipment, food, people and other items. Never realised how much floor area was available on the footplate of diesel locos!

Posted by Poochivenkat on 2008 Oct 17 15:42:50 +0000

Typical IR scene! Is that diesel on the right, a WDG-3A from KTE?

Posted by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer on 2008 Oct 17 15:42:40 +0000

Lunch for Humans: note the Eggs and other provisions (to be delivered to gangmen and workers down the ghats) on the footplate of the nearby WDG3...i guess these beasts are so smooth when moving that eggs are safe even on the footplate :-)

Posted by Poochivenkat on 2008 Oct 17 15:32:33 +0000

Colin, if this is true, then why is the left loco's headlights on? I thought only leading locos had their headlights on and the bankers' lights were always off! Mysterious!

Posted by Poochivenkat on 2008 Oct 17 15:14:15 +0000

I'm nowhere in the picture! This is Ramdev Gowda's shot!

Posted by Poochivenkat on 2008 Oct 17 15:12:18 +0000

Beautiful !!!!!!

Posted by Ashwin Rao on 2008 Oct 17 14:05:40 +0000

nice livery of loco , very nice shot!!!!

Posted by Ashwin Rao on 2008 Oct 17 13:07:43 +0000

My guesses,Left one's goin up banking the rake.
Right one's just patiently waiting for the crossing with headlamps turned off.

Posted by Colin Peter on 2008 Oct 17 12:24:43 +0000

Wonderfull!!,
This point where Poochi is standing is where the bankers give the last Roar(Grade ends) before quietly pushing the rake further into the yard(CLR).

Posted by Colin Peter on 2008 Oct 17 12:18:55 +0000

Ah Beautifull!!
The colour tone of the rails(not guard rail) similar to that of the sky.

Posted by Colin Peter on 2008 Oct 17 12:12:49 +0000