The Indian Railways has somehow managed to lose a 120 ton train locomotive engine. It has reportedly been missing for a month, after being deployed East Coast railways (Bhubneshwar). The loco was supposed to reach the the Tughlakabad shed by June 15 - a delay made officials believe that it could have been deployed to another location.

A loco can pull a fully loaded goods train, or a passenger train

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As days passed, officials got concerned and a massive hunt was launched in 16 zonal railways to look out for the loco. Railway Board sent out an order to all zones asking to find the missing loco. After the massive hunt, the loco was found to be on emergency duty in East coast railways and returned back to its home shed on Sunday.

“It was found that the loco developed snag near Talcher in Odisha and it was fixed. After that it was put on some emergency duty by East Coast railways and there was some miscommunication between Tughlakanad shed and East Coast Railways which led to this,” a railway spokesperson told Zee India.

This is not the first we've managed to lose a loco

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In 2012, a 70 ton loco was reported “lost” from the Kazipet junction in Andhra Pradesh. It was however, quickly found 4 km away from the loco shed after its drunk drivers left it behind. Yet, the South Central Railway, Government Railway Police and the Railway Protection Force spent hours on state's railroads, and even put out a lookout notice across junctions.

“Eventually, a motorist on a rural road alerted us about a train engine lying in the middle of an abandoned track,” a railway official told the Telegraph.

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