BOY wagon carrying iron ore on the Kirandul - Kottavalasa line. Photo by Naveen Jain, 2002.

A Maruti car loaded into a double-decker "BCCN" wagon during a trial at Golden Rock workshop. Unfortunately the wagon did not take off!

RO-RO rake at Panvel / Khed. Photo by Dr. Shirish Yande, 2001 (scanned by Apurva Bahadur).

Milk tank at Gondia. Photo by John Lacey.

East Indian Railway elephant wagon. Date?? Photo provided by Mrinal Das.

Vacuum-braked DBKM flat wagon. Photo by Apurva Bahadur. (2002?)

A petroleum tanker ('BTP') at Mysore, far from its home zone NFR. Photo by Apurva Bahadur, 2002.

A BCN wagon at the Goods Intermodal Transshipment (GIT) yard at Pune. Photo by Apurva Bahadur, April 2003.

A caboose or guard van - they still exist on IR! Class
BVZC. This one is at the end of a freight train (note the
'LV' board) passing by Dahanu. Photo by Prakash Tendulkar, 2002.

Petrol tankers. Photo by Prakash Tendulkar, 2001.

A 4-wheeler tank wagon. Earlier, these wagons had hook couplers with side buffers, but these have been since modified with CBCs. But this has made them prone to derailing because of the rigid frame and the lack of side buffers to limit lateral motion. This one hauls heavy furnace oil and is classified as TOHC. Photograph by Apurva Bahadur, 2003.

Coal wagons at Arsikere. Photograph by Jay Balakrishna, January 2003.

Class BCCN (bulk cement) rake at Pune. This rake is privately owned by ACC. Photo by Apurva Bahadur, April 2002.

The new BCNA High Speed (BCNAHS) wagons with a Top speed rated at 100 kmph. The stripes seem to provide the easy visual identification of their special status. The bogies etc. seem to be pretty much the same. Guess everything was just beefed up a bit. Such wagons are being increasingly spotted around NGP area. Most are from ER. Photo by Alok Patel, Jun 2003

BOXN HS (100 kph) wagon from the same rake as the previous pic but with another distinctive style. I do not know why they did not use the red stripes here. The wagon looks as if it has been upgraded and is not a brand new wagon. So maybe this is the livery that will be used for old and upgraded wagons. Photo by Alok Patel, Jul 2003

Another BOXN High Speed wagon at Nagpur. Not the red and white stripes on the wagon to identify it as a high speed BOXN. These are increasing in number steadily in this section and seem to be generally owned by SER and ER. Photo by Alok Patel, Jul 2003

A wet BTPN tank wagon.This was taken through an AC 3-tier coach window. Photo by Naveen Jain, 2003.

BOBYN hopper wagons at Nagpur in 2002. Photo by Alok Patel.

A milk tanker of the NDDB (National Dairy Development Board) with the Andaman Express at Nagpur. Water pipes sadly interfere with the view. Photo by Alok Patel, May 2003.

Huge LPG tankers moving out of Itarsi towards Khandwa. Photo by Alok Patel, July 2002.

27 flat bed wagons holding 54 Tatra BEML Army Trucks being hauled by double KJM WDM-2As at Baiyapanahlli station. Bangalore, 8 Nov 2003. By Anil Tharian.

This is an abandoned salt wagon in Sambhar Salts Ltd. The wagon is wooden as metal may rust very fast. Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan., Aug 2003. By Roopesh Kohad.

Bogie of a container rake.. Bangalore, 09 Nov 2003. By Sandeep Mohan.

A strange wagon rigged by cutting open its roof and side walls, used for transporting axles. Ernakulam Jn., 2003. By Jimmy Jose.

Another view of the strange wagon. This is an old wagon whose roof and side walls have been cut as shown. This is used to transport axles - the axle is placed by a crane into the wagon through the opening, on to a track inside the wagon, and is then rolled to either side. Ernakulam, 2003. By Jimmy Jose.

Water special!!! A water tanker near the ERS loco shed. ERS loco shed, 2003-11-19. By Jimmy Jose.