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With regard to the cab swap on 25190. Here is 25189 awaiting scrapping at Doncaster Works on April 20th 1986 with '7540' clearly showing through the paint on the No.1 cab.
WP 7542 sits on Chhapra Kacheri shed near Patna. 7542 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in 1955 as part of the Colombo aid plan and mighty fine it looks here on visit to the shed in 1992 by British Locomotive Historian, Laurie Marshall's group tours to India
Immediate predecessor of the famous Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacifics were the 30 4-6-2s of class K3s erected in 1913 by Baldwin Locomotive Works. They were built with the fabricated trailing truck, as seen here on No. 7546 in this view from October 3, 1947.
25202 (ex D7552) at Crewe on 2nd June 1984. Built at Derby Works and delivered on 23rd June 1965. Withdrawn on 25th June 1986 and cut up at Vic Berry's, Leicester in May 1989.
India Railways - class WP 4-6-2 steam locomotive Nr. 7557 in June 1982 (Canadian Locomotive Company 2771, 1955/6.
A striking portrait of a beautifully decorated Indian Railways class WP steam locomotive Nr. 7557, in 1982.
Locomotive Nr. 7557 was built in Canada in 1955/6, and was delivered new to India as part of an order for a total of 120 such locomotives from the Canadian Locomotive Company (manufacturer's numbers 2730–2849). Their road numbres were 7516 to 7635. An additional eighty WP locomotives were ordered from the same Canadian manufacturer already in 1949, bringing the combined total to 200 Canadian-built locomotives of this type in India. A total of 755 WPs were built between 1947 and 1967 in the USA, Poland, Austria, Canada and finally in India.