Varanasi: The Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) will produce the first
prototype of the WDG5 locomotive by February 2012. K.B.L. Mittal,
General Manager, DLW formally initiated the production of the 5500 HP
WDG5 locomotive at the Locomotive Frame Shop.
Speaking on the
occasion, Mittal said that the locomotive has an output of 5500 bhp,
which makes it the strongest diesel locomotive ever run on the Indian
rail network. In combination with its record high tractive effort of 560
KN, it can pull significantly more load at higher speeds, thus enabling
Indian Railways to increase the system throughput in the rail network.
The WDG5 (W - Wide/Broad gauge , D - Diesel powered , G - Made for
hauling goods , 5 - above 5000hp) locomotive design is a significant
enhancement over the existing high horsepower diesel locomotives
currently in use on the Indian Railways. In addition to providing the
highest horsepower and tractive effort available within the Indian
Railways diesel locomotive fleet, other highlighted features of the WDG5
include electronic fuel injection, radial grids and high adhesion light
weight fabricated bogies.
This locomotive incorporates salient
features from International Union of Railways (UIC) and Association of
American Railroads (AAR) crash-worthiness criteria and is a major step
forward in safety.
The locomotive also sports a state-of-art
driver console with modern driver interface and crew friendly features
like an air conditioned cab and a toilet, which is another first for the
Indian Railways fleet. The WDG5 locomotive has the capability to
integrate EMD’s Intellitrain remote diagnostic and monitoring systems to
reduce maintenance costs, enhance safety, increase asset utilization,
reliability and availability.
The complete high horsepower
locomotive design was done by Research Designs and Standards
Organization (RDSO) and Diesel Locomotive Works, (DLW) of Indian
Railways with the support of EMD.
Also present on the occasion
were Rakesh Vatash, Chief Mechanical Engineer, A.K.Mittal, Controller
of Stores, Vashisht Johari, Sr. Chief Design Engineer, Vivek Kumar,
Chief Mechanical Engineer - Production, Atul Mohan, Finance Advisor
& Chief Accounts Officer, R.N. Mishra, Chief Mechanical Engineer-
Materials, H. Narain, Finance Advisor & Chief Accounts officer- ToT,
L.B.Rai, Chief Personal Officer, P.K. Gupta, Chief Electrical
engineer, D.L. Kamble, Chief Project Manager - MOD, A.k. Sharma, Chief
Vigilance Officer, R.B. Yadav, Chief engineer - civil, Dr. Padam Singh,
Chief medical superintendent, Shivendra Mohan, Deputy General Manager
and Secretary to GM. |
12:10 PM
c.sunish
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WILL IT HAVE DUAL CAB OR WE HAVE TO SUFFER LONGHOOD WORKING AS IN WDG4/P4. Many Loco running staff are complaining like poor visibility and back pain in driving Long hood.
Do the new Loco WDG5 has dual cab or do we have to suffer working of WDG4/P4 longhood where visibility is poor and poor enginemanship. There are many complaints of backpain to loco running staff who are working Longhood in p4/g4 locos.
The WDG4/WDP4s were never meant to be operated LHF. The IDIOTS at IR should have ordered the EMD locomotives with duel cabs in the first place!
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