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Rack Railway: Steam train on Glendale Bridge

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Channel: Incredible Steam Trains of India and Other Videos · 2016 · Entertainment

The daily Train No. 56136 Nilagiri Passenger from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam (Ootacamund) carrying passengers from the Chennai-Mettupalayam Nilagiri Express chugs toward Coonoor via tea gardens and the curved bridge at Glendale into Tunnel No. 13; powered by an oil-fired steam engine X-37398 named "Nilgiri Queen", on the gradient of 1 in 12.50 on the rack section of the scenic metre gauge Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) at 09:50 Hrs on June 21, 2016.

As on June 2016, there are 8 steam engines in running condition - 4 of these are vintage Swiss-built engines (of which 3 are converted to oil-firing and the oldest one has been retained on coal-firing), and 4 new oil-fired steam engines were built in India at Golden Rock, Tiruchirapally - the engine seen in this video is one of these. 

So far, five vintage X- Class Swiss-built steam engines used on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway have been mounted as exhibits, as detailed herein:

X 37385 at National Rail Museum, Delhi - In the late 1990s
X 37386 at Ootacamund Station, Nov 2, 2017
X 37390 at Coonoor Station, Tamil Nadu - June 16, 1999
X 37389 at Coimbatore Railway Station, Tamil Nadu. Aug 9, 2017
X 37393 at Regional Rail Museum, Perambur, Tamil Nadu - Dec. 2014
X 37395 at Rail Museum, Tiruchirapally, March 10, 2016

To know more about this unique railway - the only one of its kind in Asia, do read my Book: "NMR - FROM LIFELINE TO OBLIVION" available on this link: https://shop.brainlairbooks.com/book/9781642494877

- V.M. Govind Krishnan

Rack Railway: Steam train on Glendale Bridge

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