MAS to HWH by Coromandel Exp. - Part 4 (Jan 2000)

This video covers the final leg of my journey from Bhubaneswar to Howrah, with Kazipet WDM2C doing the honors all the way. At Bhubaneswar, I went up to the loco and requested for a footplate. To my pleasant surprise, I was allowed in for a short loco ride till Cuttack. And so, I was able to savor the section till Cuttack from a Baldie cab. This included two single-line crossings (one being the Tapaswini Exp.) and the two bridges over the Kuakhai and Kathajodi rivers. Other highlights of the journey are as follows: Crossing Purshottam Exp. before Barang Halt at Cuttack Crossing the Mahanadi river Skipping Bhadrakh Crossing the Dhauli and Falaknuma Expresses in quick succession Halt at Balasore Race with a freight train just before Kharagpur Overtaking the East Coast Exp. at Kharagpur Crossing the Howrah-LTT Exp. just outside Kharagpur Crossing the WAP4-hauled Gitanjali Exp. (meeting of two SER legends) Meeting the Shantiniketan Exp. just before Howrah Entering Howrah Part 3 of the trip can be seen here -    • MAS to HWH by Coromandel Exp. - Part 3 (Ja...