Up the mountain!
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Channel: Incredible Steam Trains of India and Other Videos · 2012 · Entertainment
The second new India-built oil fired steam engine, X 37397, races uphill toward Coonoor on the rack railway, bringing a load of visitors to the ongoing Summer Festival at Udhagamandalam (Ooty), on May 9, 2012. Built at Golden Rock Workshop of Indian Railways at Tiruchirapally, this new metre gauge engine weighs close to 50 tonnes and can haul up to 97.6 tonnes with 30 km speed in the plains and 15 km on the rack railway between Kallar and Coonoor. The engine has outsourced welded type boilers and has two separate tanks for 850 litre diesel and 2,250 litres of furnace oil. This steam engine was rolled out on Feb. 6, 2012 and underwent extensive trials after reaching the Nilgiri Mountain Railway at Mettupalayam on Feb. 27, 2012. Two more such engines are to be built for this rail-line. V.M.Govind Krishnan's book: "NMR [Nilgiri Mountain Railway]-From Lifeline to Oblivion", now available in its Revised Edition documents the efforts of the public to thwart the moves of the Indian government to dismantle this unique rack railway, now in its 113th year; and to keep this engineering marvel in running condition. NMR is the only metre gauge rack railway in Asia. Online orders for this Book can be had on this link: https://notionpress.com/read/nilgiri-mountain-railway-nmr?cN=af22197be2df8d21f124b5e0a0e3d7d9d066c92f
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