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I've seen a lot of people getting confused on the height of an OHE pole on whether it's normal OHE or High-rise OHE. From the surface, they may look the same since the normal & High-rise OHE poles uses the same kind of design(Except the ones in DFC's). However, if you pay close attention, you'll find the actual difference.

The easiest way to recognize the height of OHE is to just look at the rectangular openings(The ones I marked) on the pole which gives away it's height.

If an electric pole has 12/13 rectangular openings, then it's High-rise(The one on left in first image) that you'll see on ground. On the bridge, it will usually have 14/15 rectangular openings(It MAY vary in bridge's case but that's the usual number of openings).

On the other hand, if a pole has 10 rectangular openings, then it's normal OHE height(The one on right in second image) on ground. On the bridge, it usually has 12 rectangular openings(Same as High-rise, it may vary on bridges too).

Regardless of design difference of OHE in normal lines & DFC lines, the rectangular openings will remain the same depending on the height of OHE. This is just an easy way to identify height of any kind of OHE.

If anyone asks "What about those poles with no rectangular openings?"(Second image), those poles are mostly old & you'll never find them in High-rise. They are only limited to normal height.

This is all based on the repeated observation for many years.

Source for @railfandheeraj6498's video & this clip is from Palghar(2015).

I remember these locomotives were common across Indian railways for shunting duty, especially I used to see them in Ahmedabad (Of Vatva shed).

However, as they aged up plus much better shunter locos(WDS-6) started to grow, they just got vanished from the IR. Now it's mostly WDM-3 series or WDG-3a locos that perform shunting duties now.

As far as I remember, Shakurbasti(Delhi) probably still has one WDS-4 active while one or two are just working in a private company.

Credit goes to the actual owner.

According to the actual uploader of this video, it was recorded in 15th Sep 2023 & it's from Ajni(Nagpur).

So for the context about this weird train, Indian railways transport milk in a special bogie called "VVN" (Milk Tanker in simple words) & these are used to transport milk by attaching atleast one or two bogie in a medium-to-long distance express train to transport milk to it's destination. One tanker has the capacity of 40,000 litres & are treated on par with passenger stock & rated for higher speeds (110km/h) than most freight stock.

As for the one in this video, this train is called "Doodh Duronto express" & these were introduced in March 2020 by SCR. Reason is due to COVID-19 when the commercial services were halted. The halt in commercial service also affected the transportation of milk too as Milk tankers were always attached behind passenger trains.

This was introduced between Renigunta & New Delhi as a special high-speed milk train to balance the essential commodity supply chain without interrupting it. Covering around 2,300 km of journey in 30 to 33 hours, even competing with Rajdhani express too as there was almost no traffic.

While I also like to see a train getting coupled since I'm a railfan & I find almost every aspect of railways always fascinating.

However, I'm referring to normal people who gather to see the coupling process & these are definitely not railfans.

I once asked 2 or 3 people randomly & none of them could really explain it. They just said that they also don't know but it somehow look satisfying to watch for some reason.

What do you think? Why does train coupling attract so many people, even those who aren't into railways?

So the train in the video is 11087/Veraval-Pune express after skipping Bhaktinagar(Rajkot) railway station with BGKT WAP-7.

DoC: 18th Oct 2025 & the train has already been LHBfied too.

Darth Maul from Star Wars.

While I like Son Goku, he's my favorite character since childhood, a huge number(Note: Not all) of his fans always spam the "Goku solos" or smth which is just annoying to see.

So I was recovering my old photos/videos & taking them in my new phone. There, I found a lot of train related photos my father clicked for me back in the day & this is one of them. Yes that kid is me.

This photo is from the earlier days when Western Railways finally started to receive EMD's for passenger trains. Earlier, the non-electrified routes in this zone had only ALCO's for passenger trains(Like WDM-2A or WDM-3A/3D series) meanwhile EMD's(Majority WDG-4) were used for mostly freight train alongside ALCO's(Mostly WDG-3A) series while GE(WDG-4G/6G) weren't running yet.

The train in this pic is Howrah(Now terminated to Shalimar)-Porbandar express & its from Jamnagar & interestingly this train is one of the few long distance trains with ICF.

For those who are wondering which phone was used, it was some "Sony Xperia" model from 2013 or 2014.