Had seen this chick at Pune on Sunday 13th Jan'08.

Posted by Kharad Zarir Variyava on 2008 Jan 17 09:35:35 +0000

Hot shot! Great job!

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2008 Jan 17 09:28:46 +0000

Uni-directional only? How would it run reverse? Do they have a driving cab arrangement at the rear? Going by the pic, I don't think so.

Posted by PVS Praveen Kumar on 2008 Jan 17 08:33:01 +0000

An over-powered 8 caboose rake!!

Triple WAG5 Bankers: (3850x3=11550)
WCAG1 = 5000 (in AC mode)

Total = 11550 + 5000 = 16550 HP for a 8 Caboose (BVZI) load.

Posted by Kharad Zarir Variyava on 2008 Jan 17 07:07:24 +0000

May I call this a cat-face, like we have certain WAG-7 called tigerface?

Posted by Rahul on 2008 Jan 17 05:06:14 +0000

My Apologies but that was for Davis Shryer.

Posted by Guest on 2008 Jan 16 16:54:58 +0000

Hey Chris...Am very excited to hear from someone ie you who was in the NCAC(think thats what you guys called it then during WWII). I know where you are coming from..am from the area around Ledo(though I stay in New Delhi the capital.

Well sadly for Ledo its still in the locked up corner of India's Northeast. But maybe it might interest you but much of the area I suspect still looks like when you guys were here almost over 60 years ago.

Cheers!
Sanjay Goswami
India

Posted by Guest on 2008 Jan 16 16:52:03 +0000

The mast appears to be at the end of a stub or dead end track and only supports an OHE wire being earthed so I don't think it's as dangerous as its made out to be.

Posted by Bharat Vohra on 2008 Jan 16 15:40:38 +0000

No Karan,Its a thought being rethinked again and again via trial runs coz Ranichennama and UBL intercity as seen above are running late almost everyday by 30-45mins.Thereby WDG4 link for long rakes especially might make sense as well as makeup time lost!

Posted by Colin Peter on 2008 Jan 16 15:29:00 +0000

Isnt twin-WDM2 overpower for shunting duties compared to the good old WDS4 and WDS6 ?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2008 Jan 16 14:19:05 +0000