Railways has manufactured a high speed locomotive in West Bengal’s Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, achieving a top speed of 180km/hr.
This new locomotive produced under ‘Make In India’ initiative, will speed up trains like never before.
Watch the video: pic.twitter.com/E5QCi0dSa7
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) August 12, 2019
NEW DELHI — India’s politicians are touting the country’s first locally produced locomotive capable of about 110 mph.
According to Livemint.com, workers in India’s Chittaranjan Locomotive Works developed the locomotive as part of the country’s Make In India initiative. Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister for Railways and Commerce & Industry posted a video of the locomotive reaching what appears to be the red-line for engines at 180-kilometers per hour, which is roughly 110 mph.
Not saying 110 MPH isn’t fast, but weren’t they doing more than that with E-6’s back in the early 1940’s?? (At least The Milwaukee Road was.)
Here in the North East, we call ’em “ghetto guards”, for obvious reasons. Although, now that I think about it, our crumbling infrastructure, is starting to worry me, just as much.
Given India’s horrific record of derailments, collisions, and other rail disasters, who in his right mind would want to ride at 110 mph, or for that matter ride their damn trans at all??
IAN – Don’t know about now, Boston MBTA and locally assigned Amtrak locos got metal grates after a rock or a cement block thrown off an overpass killed the engineman.
That speed should give pause to any roof riders.
You have people living on the railroad tracks and hanging off the passenger cars. At 110 MPH there will be a “thinning of the herd”
Ian, in case it comes to Chicago.
Why do they have those metal rails over the windscreen?
Now if they can just keep it on the tracks!
Twenty cars with 2000 riders? How about 4000plus!
I hope the crew is strapped into their seats…pretty rough ride.
It has long been a priority of the Indian government to be able to have domestic manufacturing concerns supply all of the nation rail system’s need components. Keeping manufacturing jobs in India and not having them migrate to China or elsewhere is part of the nation’s domestic agenda. Sound familiar?
I was in Pakistan in the early 1990s, working on a capital needs assessment for an international investment group and a locomotive manufacturing consortium. Pakistan back then had a “Made in Pakistan” initiative similar to that of India. I suspect the Pakistani government, for numerous reasons, has abandoned that goal.
That’s really impressive. Now put 20 cars on it’s tail filled with 2,000 people and see what it would do.