A smoking EMD of class WDP-4D accelerates after departing Chennai Egmore with 06089 Chennai Central-Velankanni special train.

Spotting "THANGAM"

50th WAP-7 loco of ROYAPURAM shed "THANGAM" meaning gold in Tamil language powering Coimbatore Intercity Express

Door travel

Far away from home shed rugged looking LALLAGUDA WAP-4 hauling Shalimar Express with few passengers sitting on the door in general carriage

Long journey to Ahmedabad

Navjeevan Express on its 1890 Kms of journey from Chennai Central to Ahmedabad powered by ROYAPURAM WAP-7 on a sunny morning

Shining loco & carriages

ARAKKONAM shed WAP-4 and clean carriages from Hubbali yard form a clean and shining consist as Hubbali Express returns to its base

Good old days are back

ARAKKONAM shed, once filled WAP-4, again started getting WAP-4 locos after it lost all its WAP-4 locos to ROYAPURAM and ERODE sheds

Royapuram WAP-7 powering Trivandrum-Chennai express om its last leg of its journey crosses the urban surroundings of Chennai.

Ripping through Veppampattu

Even though there is a platform in the UP direction, no trains stop at this station in both direction and rip through at max speed

Speeding train & Girl

The girl appears so small in front of the WAP-4 powering HUMSAFAR Express ripping through Korattur throwing up dust

Trackman & Train

Trackman on his regular inspection of the tracks as Sampark Kranti Express powered by ARAKKONAM WAP-4 on its long journey to H.Nizamuddin

Slowly being phased out

As energy efficient 3-phase EMUs join the fleet, old EMU of WAU-4 class slowly gets phased out from service

Spotting after long time

WAP-7 #30320, one of first WAP-7 loco that came to my area, after a gap of 8 months seen with legendary COROMANDEL Express

Surprise ALCo spotting

ALCos are rarely spotted in this electrified mainline section and was surprised to see TONDIARPET WDM-3A with port bound BOXN consist