Iron Horse

Vintage beauties that billowed smoke and breathed steam have bowed out after serving the country for more than 150 years. While hundreds of these smoking beauties which were in service till late 1980s, have been sold as scrap, a few were lucky to escape the auctioneer's hammer and are preserved in the railway museums as this one at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi while a few such classics are preserved in the Railway Museum, Mysore