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...