Patna/New Delhi, June 17 -- Railway Locomotive factory Marhowrah, Bihar will supply 150 Evolution Series ES43ACmi locomotives for SimFer's Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, Africa, worth more than Rs 3,000 Crore.
37 locomotives will be exported in this Financial Year whereas 82 locomotives will be exported in the next Financial Year and 31 locomotives will be exported in the third Year.
All these locomotives will have AC Cabins. Each loco will have single cabin and two locomotives together will carry the load of 100 wagons with maximum permissible speed.
For manufacturing of these locomotives, three types of tracks - broad guage, standard guage and Cape guage have been laid in Marhowrah Locomotive premises.
Locomotives being manufact...