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these locos have been built all over the place.. the one in previous photos was built in Austria.
Posted by Aseem Johri on 2012 May 21 12:12:49 +0100
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notice the old 2-tier sleeper coaches! It used to be common with Amritsar - Dehradun passenger (now Exp).
Posted by Aseem Johri on 2012 May 21 12:09:28 +0100
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Was that actually Huggy Bear?? Amazing...
Posted by Avishek Basu on 2012 May 21 09:28:46 +0100
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Nice silhouette.

Loco without the headlight? Or is it placed in front of smoke box?
Posted by Satish Gune on 2012 May 21 08:50:20 +0100
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Beautiful...this is probably one of the few pictures that shows WP with boxpok driving wheels. The other pictures show regular solid spoke wheels or mix of both types.
Would have loved to see WP's unique leading wheels.

Is it poor wheel balancing lob on the second leading wheel in this image?
Posted by Satish Gune on 2012 May 21 08:31:32 +0100
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AFAI remember from my one visit to RPM is that the pic is taken from the north side and one can see the south part, so the harbour is on the left of the pic. And the high walls are still there
Posted by Vivek Pillay (Oldman) on 2012 Apr 24 04:52:28 +0100
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Compare this image with this one that was taken on the same spot nearly half a century later. Mechanised coal conveyor to manual refuelling in fifty years - what a progress!
Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2012 Apr 23 19:36:00 +0100
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All the pictures here are of Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (MSMR). The boat Mail was operated by South Indian Railway (SIR).
Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2012 Apr 23 19:30:27 +0100
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This is an XB class locomotive since MSMR did not have any locomotives of the XC class. Many of the MSMR express locomotives including this one were christened as can be seen from the name plate of this locomotive above the middle driving wheel.
Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2012 Apr 23 19:26:18 +0100
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My guess is that this loco has overshot the semaphore signal at danger and come to grief in the de-railment dead end pit.

Posted by S. Srinivas on 2012 Apr 23 14:17:27 +0100