Title - Myanmar to enjoy rides on Indian engines

AJMER: The Loco Workshop of Ajmer has renovated age-old shunting engines and is exporting them to Myanmar. Three engines have already been dispatched and two others are ready for export. With advancement in rail transportation, the shunting engines, which ran on metre gauge till a decade back, were rendered useless. These engines cannot be used in our country since the metre gauge has been replaced by broad gauge. These heavy machines had to be loaded on to truck trolleys to be sent to Myanmar.The Loco Workshop here is trying to incorporate the latest technology into these engines.The Loco Workshop has charged Rs 80 lakhs per engine for this consignment from Rail India Techno Economical Service Ltd (RITES) - a major PSU of railways dealing with exporting technology out of the department. "Three diesel engines were renovated by the workshop as shunting engines at a cost of nearly Rs 2 crores each and one more is underway," an official said. Two out of the four engines were sold to private companies and one to DRDO (Defence Research Development Organization).

Loco workshop, one of the oldest rail workshops in the country, is now fixing parts of metre gauge engines in broad gauge ones. "What we are doing is converting shunting engines whose production has been stopped by the railways," said Sudhir Gupta, chief workshop manager.