Shining Wap4 (dead)SRC 22743, which hauled 12152 Samarsata exp, till IGP, was made dead, and Ajni WAP7 30310 attached to it, which hauled it till LTT, under newly converted AC region of KYN-TNA-LTT, is captured by Nitin Kumar, on a Fresh Early Morning on Jan 12, 2014, at Kalyan Jn (Nitin Kumar)

Date: 2014-01-12
Owner: Vijay Aravamudhan
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Photo Properties
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Make Canon Model Canon PowerShot SX150 IS
Aperture Value f/3.4 Color Space sRGB
Flash No Flash ISO 800
Metering Mode Multi-Segment Shutter Speed Value 1/5 sec
Digital Zoom Ratio 1 Date/Time 2014 Jan 12 07:00:22 +0000

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Hi Akshay
If the purpose was to bring AC locos to LTT for the next day's services I buy your logic. But that could have been done attaching the new AC locos at the rear of the train. I suppose there were more centimental issues than this. If we go...
Posted by Avishek Basu on 2014 Jan 18 06:26:45 +0000
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There is a simpler, operational possibility too. It would be much more complicated to remove the original loco, attach the additional dead loco to the rake and couple the original loco ahead of the newly attached loco again. Instead, simply attach the...
Posted by Akshay Marathe on 2014 Jan 17 10:40:57 +0000
Quite Possible !!! That would have been the main intention of CR.
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2014 Jan 17 06:54:53 +0000
Why they made SRC WAP-4 dead and attached AJNI WAP-7??? Just to make sure it's a CR loco which entered first??
Posted by Avishek Basu on 2014 Jan 16 17:04:36 +0000
Why they made SRC WAP-4 dead and attached AJNI WAP-7??? Just to make sure it's a CR loco which entered first??
Posted by Avishek Basu on 2014 Jan 16 17:04:02 +0000