Re: More Indian Steam for Sunday
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Hi Phil, The Indian Railways are divided into geographic regions.? Off the top of my head, I can think of Northern, Western, Northeast Frontier, Central, South Central, and Southern.? I'm probably missing some and there might be some more since in the last 40 years.? Steam engines had their regional railway lettered on their tenders or side tanks, often in Roman letters on one side and Hindi (or possibly another local language) letters on the other.? If the railway was one word, the letters were ER, SR, WR, etc.? Two words resulted in NF or SC.?? Diesels and electrics seem to lettered Indian Railways, but then have the livery of their assigned loco shed.? Steam engines tended to be painted for their region.? Passenger engines often got more colorful livery than freight, however the SC meter gauge engines in Hyderabad/Secunderabad were both colorful, with the 2-8-2s in 2 tone blue and the 4-6-2s in red and green.?? Oddly enough, those paint schemes are used by some diesels in Sri Lanka, where, I understand they represent the colors of the ruling party when the engines were delivered.? So, the 2 tone blue Sri Lankan M2 and M4 diesels were delivered are the colors of one party and the red and green on the M6 and W1 & W2 diesels represent the other major party.? Go figure. Hope this helps, Mike Tisdale
On Saturday, February 15, 2020, 02:18:59 PM PST, 'Phil Burton' philip-b@... [ObservationCar] <observationcar@...> wrote:
Mike, ? In your earlier photos from 40 years ago in India, the engines had ¡°ER¡± on the tenders.? In these photos, the lettering is ¡°SC.¡±? Do you know (remember?) what these letters represented? ? Phil ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Tisdale via Groups.Io
Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:17 AM To: [email protected]; Observation Car <observationcar@...> Subject: [ObservationCar] More Indian Steam for Sunday ? Continuing with my 40 years ago theme, a ride behind a WP 4-6-2 and then another shed bash. ? ?
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