North Centrail Railway Jhansi electric loco shed's JHS WAG5 HB 24005 hauls BCNA rake loaded with onions .
WAG5 HB locomotives are the ones manufactured by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ( BHEL ) .


WAG5 electric locomotive technical specification :

Traction Motors Alstom TAO 659 (575 kW, 750V, 1070 rpm) or TAO 656; or Hitachi HS 15250A . Axle-hung, nose-suspended. Six motors.
Gear Ratio 62:16 or 62:15 with Alstom motors, some 64:18 (Hitachi motors), many now 58:21 for mixed use.
Transformer BHEL, type HETT-3900. 3900kVA, 22.5kV, 182A. 32 taps.
Rectifiers Silicon rectifiers (two) using 64 S-18FN-350 diodes each from Hind Rectifier. 2700A / 1050V per cubicle.
Bogies Co-Co cast high-adhesion bogies
Max Haulage capacity 2375t
Pantographs Two Faiveley AM-12
Current Ratings 1100A/10min, 750A continuous

WAG5 locomotives are legendary freight locos of the Indian Railways and are now mostly used as multiple unit but in this case it was a single WAG5 .
WAG5 were followed by WAG6 class but they were quite limited in number and weren't widely used on IR , still some WAG6 locos can be spotted serving in the serving Araku valley and they are homed at electric loco shed Vishakhapatnam ( VSKP ) .
The main locomotives to replace the WAG5 was the 5000 HP WAG7 locomotives which were introduced in the 90s , this was followed by the modern 3 phase WAG9 locomotives from ABB , the first set of WAG9 were imported and later some were assembled by IR and as per the transfer of technology agreement Indian Railways produced the WAG9 locos at CLW . WAG7 and WAG9 are still in production , WAG5 production was stopped long back .

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