How can I tell which home shed a loco belongs to?

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How can I tell which home shed a loco belongs to?

June 22, 2019, 2:11 PM

Home sheds for locos are often, but not always, indicated somewhere on the loco itself. For instance, the station code of the home shed may be painted on the side of the loco, or the full name of the shed may appear on the front. Some sheds have elaborate logos, whereas others may just bear stylized renditions of the shed names. Logos often appear on the front, but are sometimes on the sides of locos (e.g., Erode, Lallaguda, Vadodara). Some sheds don’t use any logos, e.g., Santragachhi, Mughalsarai. Station codes often appear near the buffers on one side. For many sheds (e.g., Howrah, Kanpur, Mughalsarai) the shed station code appears in Roman letters on one side and the full name of the shed in Devanagari on the other.

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Many Pune shed locomotives, esp. diesel, bear a navy blue disc shaped logo up front with the full name ‘Pune’ painted thereon, in the local language Marathi. Erode has a flying deer logo. Itarsi based engines also have the ‘Itarsi’ displayed in full. Baroda locos have ‘BRC’ painted on with to-and-fro arrows above and below it. Some flat-faced steam locos used to have station codes of their sheds painted (sometimes in a stylized manner) at the centre of the face of the loco, e.g., Baripada (BPO) and Nainpur (NIR) locos (ZD’s, ZE’s).

However, not all locos have home shed indications. Many CR locos have no indication of their home sheds. Golden Rock locos are often unmarked when on test runs or after being rebuilt (major overhauls).

Source – IFRCA.org

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