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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. The DLW has created history by converting two WDG3A Diesel Locos into a Twin Electric WAGC3 loco of 10,000 HP.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

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: -What is the most famous diesel locomotive in the history of railroading? Arguably, the classic Electro-Motive “F-unit” can lay claim to the title. The Electro-Motive “F-unit”: Born in the autumn of 1939, it would be produced, in eight different models, until 1960 and would number more than 7,500 strong.