General Motors EMD Locomotive Controls

General Motors EMD Locomotive Controls

General Motors EMD Locomotive Controls of Sri Lankan Locomotives

By

Gyan Fernando

Of the locomotives of the Sri Lankan Railway, two types of locomotives have a General Motors EMD pedigree.

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The Class M General Motors EMD G12 locomotives of Sri Lanka and the Henschel built Class M6 locomotives have General Motors EMD type controls.

The Class M2 locomotives are pure GM EMD and are designated as G12 by EMD.

The Class M6, although built by Thyssen Henschel of West Germany, have EMD prime movers and EMD controls. This of course makes these two classes similar in some ways.
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The Locomotives of Sri Lanka

The Locomotives of Sri Lanka

By

Gyan Fernando

This is an open-ended web book which I published on the 23^rd of November 2011. 
It is not a comprehensive account and is just a web home for some of my recent pictures.

In fact, it is just a photo-essay with minimal text.

Try this link

Locotoons by Kumaran

Locotoonstm Revived!

"LocotoonsTM by Kumaran"

 by

Gyan Fernando

Sometime in the year 2002, Kumaran of Singapore did a series of delightful caricatures, of  Sri Lankan locomotives of the M Class as well as other trains, exclusively for my website. 

I cannot remember whose idea it was originally but it does not matter now.

They were drawn in his usual style of "Humanising" locomotives and in the process of drawing them, he gave them feminine personalities! 
I called them "Locotoons tm by Kumaran"

Given the limitations of my original website I don't think many people actually saw them but they do appear on a Google search and have been plaigiarised.

Unlike other things in life, cartoons never really age. I thought that they were worth a second life and have reproduced them here

Do go on and indulge yourselves!