A Train and a Dramatically Beautiful Kerala Setting

Ernakulam diesel locomotive shed’s veteran WDG3A diesel freight locomotive #13145 heads north with the 56388 Kayamkulam-Ernakulam passenger. This location is just ahead of the train’s origin. It was a very dark and overcast evening, and it started raining heavily pretty soon after this picture was taken. The image was heavily edited, of course, and the result is a dramatic, though grainy image created to look as a poster. The grains are meant to bring out that poster “effect” of the image and the setting. Locomotives in ERS’ orange colours are getting rarer as the shed is being neglected by the Southern Railway zone.