Is IR is painting many of the BOXN rakes blue? Is it just a change in livery or a slightly different wagon class? They look like the older BOXN wagons. I spotted a blue BOXN coal train coming from CHTS the other day, with ED WDG3A twins in front and an ERS WDM 3A banker. The rake looked very nice with the blue ED WDG 3A twins. Nice pic by the way, no electric poles and many semaphores!

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Dec 16 00:57:34 +0000

Nice shot

Posted by Alex P. John on 2009 Dec 16 03:16:38 +0000

Jimmy, I think Shanx or Alok had mentioned in one of the photos that the blue BOXN are stainless steel wagons. Did you notice this difference?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2009 Dec 16 04:55:55 +0000

Nice image. Like the sharp curvature.

Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2009 Dec 16 07:19:21 +0000

My observation regarding the blue wagons is that they have the standard capacities of near about 70, 30, 20, which is also same in old BOXNs. Also most of these blue wagons observed by me were new and maximum belonged to ECR and SECR. I will get a close-up shot in some days for sure.

Posted by Samar on 2009 Dec 16 07:33:56 +0000

Good shot!

Posted by Ujjwal Kashyap on 2009 Dec 16 14:02:40 +0000

Great semaphore territory. But, I do see a small pit for a foundation for a MACL. The semaphores are on the way out.

Great shot.

Posted by S. Srinivas on 2009 Dec 16 15:23:02 +0000