Steam & Excursion > Keeping 'em Running - India

In the fall of 1995 the Indian railways was well into Project Unigauge, an ambitious undertaking aimed at converting it’s meter gauge rail lines to broad gauge (5’-6”). This would spell the end for meter gauge steam.

At Ahmedabad steam was still being serviced but at minimal expenditure, with the result that shop foreman like the gentleman shown here were often forced to rely on creativity and ingenuity to keep many locos serviceable while they waited for diesels to arrive.

To date, a number of the lines out of Ahmedabad have yet too be converted but still run with diesels traction.

Herewith, a couple of views that maintainence ingenuity.

Cheers,
Jack

1. Shop foreman.

 2. How do you take out the lateral motion in a well worn crosshead? Weld in some scrap steel, of course.

3. This YG 2 - 8 -2 loco is running on borrowed time. This whistle will have to last. Say, isn’t that a light fixture mounting bracket holding it together?

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/16 15:49 by africansteam.

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That'll buff right out.

Seeing the condition of that whistle, it scares me to think of what the boiler conditions are.

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