Blast From The Past !
🌟GORAKHDHAM EXPRESS🌟
Hispano Suiza 5800 NGT Turbocharger equipped Gonda (GD) WDM 3B # 14145 exiting Dilkusha Cabin(Lucknow Block Hut, LBH) on a fine morning with "The Pride...
more... Of Gorakhpur", 12556 Dn Hisar - Gorakhpur Gorakhdham Superfast Express. This happens to be one of the ISO certified trains of IR (ISO 9001:2015) & imagine a single Alco at the helm of a 24 coacher superfast with CBC ICF rake.
The second unit of its class (first being 14144/ED), this loco was wrongly classified as a WDM 3A by Gonda (as seen in the picture) & was later re-classified as a WDM 3D after the addition of a microprocessor post transfer to Izzatnagar (IZN). WDM 3B locomotives had the same specifications (including bogies) as that of the WDM 3D class but lacked a microprocessor.
please wait...Translate to EnglishYo, this train called the Gorakhdham Express, with a strong-ass name tho, was pulling outta Lucknow, looking fly as hell with just one engine on 24 carriages! And get this, it got that ISO 9001:2015 certification, being all legit and shit. Despite being called WDM 3A at first, it’s actually a WDM 3D, rocking the tracks without that microprocessor swag.