Ahmedabad DRM details India`s first LNG-powered train, hails 12,000-HP WAG-12 locomotive
What is special about them?
What is the special feature?
Look at this engine you're seeing in the back, it's called WAG 12, W A G 12, which means 12,000 horsepower.
Which you're seeing in the back.
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If you understand the 12,000 horsepower in the context of the train, it's for double-stack containers and two trains. This means 360 containers at once. This means 360 trucks at once. This WWH A 12 loco can take all of them together at once. And with the dedication that happened today by the Honorable Home Minister to this loco,
If you understand.
Gujarat's industry and trade will get a completely unique advantage because with this, the trade and projects here, the agricultural products, the industrial products, will be able to go much further, to the country and abroad, at a lower cost, and faster.
Right now.
So this is very important overall for Gujarat. The work for the Dedicated Freight Corridor is completely done. Now, what was required was to have locos here that can take things over long distances at high speed quickly, and take the products from here far and wide at a lower cost.
Sir, this lion has also been made, what will happen in the lion?
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This is basically the maintenance head, built in a unique style in which a total of 700 crore will be spent over 5 years. The 300 locos, including the WDG-12, which is the world's most powerful loco, will be maintained here. And the way of maintenance is very unique, it's a PPP mode where the infrastructure is built by Indian Railways. The manpower is also that of Indian Railways. The technology belongs to our partner, MLPPL. And both of these
People are coming together to create a new model so that Gujarat, its industry, and its agricultural products get a big market, and they spread across the world.
