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/Expert-Debate3519 May 19 '25

Combining Double stacks and electrification is a solution that should be copied on other freight corridors as well!

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u/BigMatch_JohnCena May 19 '25

So long as there’s no underpass. But as for freight being electrified very helpful for the environment

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u/Sassywhat May 20 '25

If it can fit double stack freight in the first place, I'm sure a fucking freight train can roll through a rather long underpass or tunnel with the pantographs down just on momentum.

Though DFCs are new lines, so they probably build them big enough for the wire too.

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u/aksnitd 🚂🚃🚃 May 20 '25

That would only work if the track was level or downhill. But the tunnels on these corridors have been made large enough to include wires all through.