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Viraf is up on the buffer beam to ride one section standing
there. The driver S. Devshibhai (drives a steam engine yet wears
clean white clothes!) is not at all happy about this, but he gives
in at last. Remember him? His picture is on Bharat
Vohra's Wankaner site as well, although he is given some other
name. The rake indicates that it is homed at Ahmedabad (ADI). These
coaches would have to be carried by a BG flatcar for overhauls as
there is no MG line to ADI from Wankaner. |
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View from the other side, the hex nut visible in the frame is
the (ever-dripping!) junction of the steam pipe to the blast
pipe. |
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Viraf holds the tape recorder to capture the sounds of the
loco. |
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Another shot of Viraf recording the sound from his buffer beam
perch. |
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The finely sculpted MG parts! The exquisite coupler and the
pointed cattle guard viewed from the buffer beam. Also visible is
the vaccum brake pipe which gracefully arcs below the coupling. The
ballast is white with the raked-out clinker from the fireboxes of
countless locos that must have stood here. |
