Superb colors. Differing shades of red and grey complement the differing shades of green.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2009 Jul 22 05:55:42 +0000

What a good image!

Posted by Samar on 2009 Jul 22 06:55:20 +0000

Beautiful shot!!!

Posted by Ashwin Rao on 2009 Jul 22 06:58:11 +0000

Front panto up, a rare sight.....some body had asked for a monsoon shot here...so thats done and that to with the king 2951...greta shot

Posted by Milind on 2009 Jul 22 09:57:46 +0000

"Front panto up, a rare sight", Would half of the time for a to and fro ride in any section, the front panto of any WCAxx loco, not be up ? Or am I missing something?

Posted by Ashish Kuvelkar on 2009 Jul 22 10:15:26 +0000

Milind, To simplify what Ashish says, one panto will be AC and one will be DC. So there are 50% chances that any CAM loco will have the front panto up.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2009 Jul 22 11:33:50 +0000

My General observation: DC Panto are facing (<) KJT/IGP Side. AC Panto are facing (>) CSTM Side. This is valid for CR, not sure for WR. This means a train departs CSTM has rear (DC) panto up and train departs IGP has front (AC) Panto Up.

Posted by Harish Kulkarni on 2009 Jul 22 17:10:34 +0000

@Harish: Defintely not possible Harish. WCAM/G locos continously traverse on the triangular sections near Diva / Panvel / Vasai / Panvel / Karjat. Hence they do get reversed very often. Hence Panto positions for bi-current locos need not be fixed as you say.

Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2009 Jul 23 09:05:45 +0000