Amazing clarity! The yellowish surroundings feel nice!
I think that BZA has both light and dark blue colour in their locos, right?

WAG-5 from BZA hauling a SR rake

I could not ask for more! A cute mg passenger train, semaphore signals, a quiet location, and pure Alco smoke!

The blue WAP4 has a phantom-like appearance! A good sight really.

One thing unique about this train is :
It goes in the morning at about 6:30am as MAS-Tirupati Saptagiri Exp,returns by 12 noon as Tirupati-MAS express leaves for Tirupati 15 min later as MAS-Tirupati Express and again returns to Chennai at about 9:00pm as Tirupati-MAS Saptagiri Express.

Yes. It has the WAM46P trailing behind it while going towards Tirupati (the WAM4 pushes it like a banker).On its return the WAM4 pulls it like any other train.Secondly, there is generally no loco change as the trip is only about 3 to 4 hours.

But now, all WCAM3s have this standard livery...it looks good. Some WCAM3s have the two brake connector pipes in the middle intact, & some dont.

the WAP4 loco is from LGD. It is #22267

From commercial point of view, WAP-4 has been in service longer than WAP-5, 7. Hence WAP-4 titled as "old boy".

Really a great sight to keep in memory. And Jagan, blue locos are there, but IR is not going to run those super coloured rakes for Jnaneswari any more.....
But Alok, are you sure the snap is of July2003? If I am not wrong IR started adding SL in 2301 from Feb2003 and at that time only they changed the good old rakes....Please confirm if I am wrong.