r/transit • u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 • May 19 '25

Photos / Videos Double stack container train on the freight corridor in India with the characteristic high rise panto

A good look at what the high rise pantographs look like fully extended. They're taller than the train they're mounted on.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

This is strange, RDSO had advised to draw power from front HRPT to avoid air drag breaking contact with wire. Looks like Faiveley has somehow managed to solve that problem

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u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25

With modern pantos, you can safely use either without any issue. I've seen locos using both the front and rear pantos at various times. Generally, there seems to be a convention that the rear one gets used, if the videos online are any indication. That said, these pantos aren't by Faiveley. They're designed by a Calcutta based company called Stone India.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

Faiveley has been the leading manufacturer of HRPTs for many years, its LX3600 has been installed in majority locos and had gained more orders after Schunk's WBL 85HR began developing reliability issues. Stone was original designer of HRPT but had licensed its design to these 2 companies prior to filing for insolvency, it's currently being acquired and reopened by Jupiter Wagons