This is the long hood of WDM2 18483 of Erode Shed hauling the 329 Dn Pune - Wadi - Hyderabad Passenger to Daund sometime in 1991. We (I ?) had just realized that the love of railways needed something to be done about it. So a trip to Daunt it was.
We were standing in the vestibule of the first coach
right next to the stinking toilet. The vestibule door opened and we were staring right at
the beautiful face of the WDM2. The folding walkway of the coach unfolded and we soon were
hanging to the long hood of the loco in the buffeting wind. The speeds we experienced were
75 - 90 Km/h. I remember the loco was throwing a lot of water from the radiator on that
particular day. From so near by, the WDM2 sounds really deep and intense. We saw a WP and
a few WGs at Daund shed on that day.