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Detailed explanation-1: -Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off the world’s first ever Diesel to Electric Converted Locomotive at Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) in Varanasi today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Solution. Explanation: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first-ever diesel-to-electric converted locomotive at the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The 10,000HP freight locomotive was converted from two units of old diesel locomotives of 2600 HP each with indigenous technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -WDM1 17000National Rail Museum In the year 1957, Indian Railways imported its first mainline diesel locomotive from the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in New York and classified it as WDM1.

Detailed explanation-4: -Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowrah - Wikipedia.

Detailed explanation-5: -Production of Electric locomotives was simultaneously taken up indigenously at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) in 1960 and the first 1500 V DC electric locomotive for Bombay Area Lokmanya was flagged off on 14.10. 1961 by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.