Awesome set of pics.. great to see the newly opened section in all its glory. Hopefully the next time you take up the trip, there will be good patronage.

Posted by Vrijilesh Rai on 2007 Apr 10 15:24:44 +0000

Brilliant...gives the impression that the train is thundering out of the bowels of the earth!! Ahh the sight of a diesel!!

Posted by Naren Damodaran on 2007 Apr 10 02:39:00 +0000

The point is that with 25 kV AC, this idiot would probably have gotten shorted already. Due to the higher voltage, the arcing distance will be higher.

Posted by Jagadheep D on 2007 Apr 09 18:05:28 +0000

I agree with Sid that the trailing loco is not 22256. Not only does 22256 not have a yellow pantograph, but it also has a glass window above every ventillation panel (11 of them) rather than above alternate panels as in later versions of WAP4s. This loco looks like 225xx.

Posted by Jagadheep D on 2007 Apr 09 18:01:12 +0000

It must have been a wonderful experience. Really nice snaps providing full description of the route.

Posted by Samar on 2007 Apr 09 17:31:45 +0000

Cool dude guard ;-)

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2007 Apr 09 16:28:56 +0000

I've seen this loco at Pune with the 6011, and he seemed to be a fantastic smoker!!

Posted by Kharad Zarir Variyava on 2007 Apr 09 15:36:00 +0000

IMHO, this is 22016 which is with AJJ.

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2007 Apr 09 12:08:37 +0000

Nothing is wrong with the picture and it is not "doctored" either. The tracks on top cuts the tracks below at an angle and forms a parallelogram. The consequence of this is that some part of the bridge does not exist on either sides and this is what you see.

Posted by M S M Saifullah on 2007 Apr 09 09:30:11 +0000

Karan, 25000AC is known as V(rms). The actual pull of that over one cycle is going to be 25000 * 2 * 1.414 = 70700V. AC has 60cycles a sec, so imagine how much higher the risk of AC is.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Apr 08 20:41:52 +0000