Nice capture. Locations seems to be somewhere between Karjat & Palasdari.

Posted by Shantanu Kulkarni on 2012 Jun 05 10:50:06 +0000

Mind blowing shot of this bonnetted beast!

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2012 Jun 05 13:49:53 +0000

Lovely shot. Picture period is December 1987 so did the white-red livery of EMU exist that time? I thought it was an invention of mid 90's.

Posted by Sanket Gosavi on 2012 Jun 05 16:32:26 +0000

Over a decade back, this brilliant image was on the website of Sundar 'Nut' Krishnamurthy. I know because I have spent hours drooling over this picture. How did it get here? The location is probably Palasdhari home signal.

Posted by Apurva Bahadur on 2012 Jun 06 03:14:54 +0000

Appu, did you mean the picture on this page - http://www.irfca.org/~sundar/wcm02.html ? I, too, remember feasting on all the pictures when Sundar came out with his pictures.

Posted by Mani Vijay on 2012 Jun 07 16:26:38 +0000

I can vividly recall my surprise on finding the EMU peek out behind my train when I took this picture in mid '98. Thanks for sharing this!

Posted by Sundar Krishnamurthy on 2012 Jun 07 17:38:08 +0000

Brings back pleasant memories of seeing this picture in one of the first websites by an IRFCA member to showcase these beauties - The Indian Train Gallery by our very own Sundar'nut' - http://www.irfca.org/~sundar/index1.html

Posted by Mani Vijay on 2012 Jun 07 18:04:51 +0000

This is the 6339 Nagercoil Express waiting for the third line to clear for its climb at Palasdhari.

Posted by Sundar Krishnamurthy on 2012 Jun 07 18:14:44 +0000

Was tough for a Sleeper class ticket for any MAS bound train from Mumbai at a short notice, so I would use 6339 or 7493 Tirupati to get an easy reservation DR-RU, then travel RU-MAS unreserved on 6011!

Posted by Sundar Krishnamurthy on 2012 Jun 07 20:02:43 +0000

This picture and many more are here - http://www.irfca.org/~sundar/index1.html - one of the oldest IR galleries created by an IRFCAN . Good to hear from you, Sundar!

Posted by Mani Vijay on 2012 Jun 07 20:52:47 +0000

DQ livery (Blue white and red stripe) did not exist in 1987..DQ livery came in 1991...Where as WCM5 was given DQ livery in 1995-96

Posted by Devraj Malekar on 2012 Jun 08 15:20:45 +0000

The current livery of DQ came in OCT 1991...I will upload a newspaper scan image of DQ with WCM1 loco...The description of that pic was Deccan queen gets new livery..

Posted by Devraj Malekar on 2012 Jun 08 15:27:36 +0000