Loco Details

Loco No. 17872
Loco Class WDM-2
Sub Class A
Shed Name(code) Pune (PUNE)
Manufacturer Serial Number 1-3389-03-964
Manufactured Date 1979-09-26
Manufacturer Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW)
Loco Name
Status In Service
Old Loco Class
Livery Pune orange with cream band & orange lining
Comments Jumbo. Rebuilt at DLMW, Patiala to WDM-2 stabdards. Fitted with ALCo NA-720 turbocharger

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Loco Details Change History

Loco Detail Changed From To Date Spotted By
livery Pune orange with cream band Pune orange with cream band & orange lining 2013-05-24 bhuvanesh
Sub Class AR A 2013-05-24 bhuvanesh
livery Blue Pune orange with cream band 2013-05-24 bhuvanesh
Comments Jumbo. Fitted with NA-720 Turbo Jumbo. Rebuilt at DLMW, Patiala to WDM-2 stabdards. Fitted with ALCo NA-720 turbocharger 2013-05-24 bhuvanesh
livery Blue 2009-12-07 Shantanu Kulkarni
Date Manufactured 0000-00-00 1979-09-26 2007-10-18 JayB
Comments Jumbo. Jumbo. Fitted with NA-720 Turbo 2007-10-18 JayB
Serial No. 1-3389-03-964 2007-10-16 JayB

Gallery photos

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Pune shed's Jumbo WDM-2 #17872R receiving attention at its home. Note the elephant god Ganesh in the background made from scrapped WDM-2 parts. #AUTH1#Apurva Bahadur#AUTH2#, 2001. #GOLD#

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A rarely photographed Jumbo, the Pune WDM 2 # 17872 gets ready to haul the evening Pune - Daund - Baramati passenger. [url=http://www.irfca.org/photos/albums/ShowcaseArchives-3/pajumbo.jpg]Here is the 17872[/url] posing in the Pune shed. Pune Jn. Pf 6, 2005-07-19. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

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We should have listened to our soul and never left the railway line, but the greed of ‘getting there faster’ possessed us. Hence we cross-countried through fields, over the hills and through knee deep streams. Slithering on the dirt tracks, we got to the track just in time to photograph this homeward bound Pune shed WDM 2 # 17872. Daundaj, 2006-08-15.

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The 17872 is a Jumbo! Daundaj, 2006-08-15.

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Pune WDM 2 Jumbo # 17872 mued with another Pune WDM 2 waiting at Ghoradongri with loaded coal rake to move towards Satpura Thermal Power Station,Sarni (Ujjawal Kashyap)

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