Pune - Chennai trips (Sept 2000 and June 2001) [page 4]

Electric freight power

edwag7.jpg (75433 bytes) Erode shed WAG7 # 27587 at Renigunta.
edwag7_1.jpg (79168 bytes) This loco is the ultimate in indigenous development of electric freight power from CLW.
edwag7_2.jpg (78965 bytes) This particular locomotive has been fitted with the twin beam headlamps, LED classification lamps and (surprise!) LED flasher on the roof.
edwag7_3.jpg (75670 bytes) The high-adhesion bogies which make this loco suitable to haul heavy freights.
edwag7_4.jpg (62829 bytes) Details of the roof. Some WAG7s have the twin headlamps grafted in the roof-height headlamp nacelle. However these waist-height headlamps are the latest style.
edwag7_5.jpg (77594 bytes) Side profile of this WAG7.
edwag7_6.jpg (73823 bytes) Another WAG7 # 27559 from Erode (not sure) with similar headlamp modifications but regular livery stands on the open line at Renigunta.
morewag.jpg (86718 bytes) A view of that WAG7 # 27559 painted in the traditional livery and the tiger stripes on the face.
morewag1.jpg (75770 bytes) Still more Erode WAG7s (# 27488), this one with the old-style headlamp.
wag5ru1.jpg (79866 bytes) The loco the more powerful WAG7 replaced, the WAG5 # 23994 from Vadodara. Note the bogies on these locos which are also found on the WDM2 and the WAM4.
wag7ru.jpg (84168 bytes) Erode WAG7 # 27487 waits with a BOXN load.

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