XE-3634 - Steam Loco

The XE-3636 steam loco as seen at the parade of steam engines in Delhi, India on 02-Feb-2007

==== About the XE-3634 ====

Built by Vulcan Foundry Company Ltd. England in 1930, this engine was commissioned in Indian railways in 1931 at GIP Railway, now Central Railway. Later on the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board, Korba purchased this engine in 1979.

The engine weighs 196.42 tonnes, is 76 feet long, has a gauge of 5' 6", coal capacity is 14 tonnes, water capacity is 6000 gallons, wheel arrangement is 2-8-2 and piston stoke of 30".

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• XE-3634
• steam
• locomotive
• engine
• indian
• railways
• broad-gauge

[papoocanada]

beuatiful mikado



[willibill1]

@Pittoop Yea, it sounds like someone blowing on a pitch pipe in stead of a real locomotive whistle..

[ta455driver]

That is NICE!

[Pittoop]

My Dad grew up in India back in the '60s and they had Steam Engines like this one. He loves the whistle on these Indian Steam Engines, says it has a pitch-sound unlike American Steam Locomotives.

[Senthil03]

Excellent

[Darryld1]

My grandfather was LocoForeman for this district at the time this engine would have been in use. Possibly Dongargarh or Bilaspur (Chattisgarh,MP)