IR WDM3A 18949 54559 ABS 120318_2
Coupling up of Ludhiana's WDM3A 18949 at Abohar Junction as it completes the required run-round of train 54559, the 09:25 Bathinda Jn - Fazilka Jn Passenger. Monday 12th March 2018.
This WDM3A is getting on now (built 1987) and many of its contemporaries are heading for shunting work or scrapping. This one has been retrofitted with the new fangled dynamic brake and APU unit (Auxiliary Power Unit - a little donkey engine to keep air and batteries topped up, so as not to run the fuel hungry main engine when idling), so it must have a few years left in mainline service, one hopes. Although it was a distinctly average performer in the noise department.
IR WDM3A 18949 54559 ABS 120318_2
Coupling up of Ludhiana's WDM3A 18949 at Abohar Junction as it completes the required run-round of train 54559, the 09:25 Bathinda Jn - Fazilka Jn Passenger. Monday 12th March 2018.
This WDM3A is getting on now (built 1987) and many of its contemporaries are heading for shunting work or scrapping. This one has been retrofitted with the new fangled dynamic brake and APU unit (Auxiliary Power Unit - a little donkey engine to keep air and batteries topped up, so as not to run the fuel hungry main engine when idling), so it must have a few years left in mainline service, one hopes. Although it was a distinctly average performer in the noise department.