217 Mayurakshi Fast Pass

217 Mayurakshi Fast Pass with a Diesel zooming at 100 Kmph

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Indian
• Railways
• Fast
• Passenger
• Train
• Mayurakshi

[nvaliulla]

12 coaches + an Engine in 9 Seconds is some serious speed! wow!

[boazrg]

The black smoke indicates that the injectors and fuel system are poorly maintained, which wastes fuel.

[boazrg]

@bangalorebully Yes - this is true. At the same time, the financial community has long since lost any sense of responsibility to the nation as a whole.  So I do not completely fault the young people for protesting, because the errors made by their parents will make thier lives hard. Both parties are to blame for the present mess. Would that a strong third party candidate would emerge to teach both the Republicans and the Democrats a lesson!

[bangalorebully]

@boazrg Well, the spirit of USA in the yester-years like late 1800s or early 1900s was a lot better that it is today..As one analyzes those days, the Americans were an upbeat enterprising lot building up their nation, but today a lot of them love to whine and complain about "inequality", "Corporate greed", recession etc instead of simply working hard for the American dream..Look at those Wall-street protests, idle socialist cockroaches eating up a great nation.

[boazrg]

@bangalorebully Would it not be simpler just to change locomotives? IR is wise to electrify. We should have done it in USA in the twenties, when there was enough private capital to do it. When diesel fuel was twenty cents a gallon in bulk, diesel locos and buses looked attractive, but now electric traction has new appeal, since the value of oil is unlikely to ever be reduced in a meaningful way.

[bangalorebully]

@boazrg These kind of engines operate in semi-urban areas where the infrastructure for electrification is still not there.You see the stress is more on switching to electric locomotives than improving these old diesel engines.There is this thing in Indian railways called "Engine change".If there is no electric lines on a route, the train stops at a station and a diesel engine is fitted after taking out the electric engine.

[nxtvctm]

I thought max speed of the diesel locos was about 80km/h?

[trainluvr]

J H Christ thats a foul discharge. Must be a lot fun to ride though.

[avinashi07]

Wow! Great show by the WDM- such thick smoke as well as making mincemeat of this 10 coach passenger

[srijit22007]

by the way which station is this