California issues an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) in preparation of buying trainsets capable of travelling around 220mph (355km/h), two prototypes, a simulator, spare parts and operational availability for 30 years. Timeline for revenue operation currently is at year 2030....
KSR = Kalka Shimla Railway. ZDM = Z stands for Narrow Gauge in Indian Railway terminology, D for diesel haulage and M means the loco was meant both for freight and passenger trains [though freight don’t run on this section]....
Sir Leslie Wilson was the governor of Bombay(now called Mumbai), hence it was named after him. The first electrified section, IIRC, in India was around ~1930 in then Bombay - Poona....
National Rail Museum, Delhi. The image is ~2 years old and in the scorching summer sun, I never added/recorded the name/extra information about these old locos.
This is the world’s oldest working steam loco still in operation. Taken onto tracks couple of times a year this is kept 70 kms westwards of Delhi, the Indian national capital
The reason we stay in school, pursue advanced degrees, merge and acquire competitors is to increase market power. The former two are celebrated by society, the latter two often derided negatively as anticompetitive and made subject to regulatory and judicial punishment.