How we touched a OHE catenary wire and lived to tell the tale

This is one hell of ride so sit tight and read on....

It all started when we met up at shanks place and called GP over sometime in 2001 december, and decided that mamu we will see a WAP4 today in HYB station, so 3 musketeers boarded a 3 wheeler and give me 2 of that wheels due to heavy axle load..., we reach HYB station quickly and got into the trip shed. Now begins the fun part, many locos were parked there and there was one WAP4 we met up with the shed contact and he said we can see the loco and the human mind being a monkey said why only under it why not be on- a- top of things!!!!!!. We asked him if we could get on to loco he gave a crazy look but agreed as they were inspecting some Circuit breakers and the pantos on top. We slowly climbed on the wap4 in the following way, a ladder was attached from the roof above the cab door, we climbed upto the cab door and then gingerly moved to the left towards the ladder and on the roof of the loco. Now kids reading this dont try this at home, the electric catenary was tripped and earthed before we got on else we would be toast in a flash. Fearful of the 25kv snake on the roof we gingerly got on but the shed guy told us that it was earthed so any stray current would leak to the ground and not come upto the loco, and there was a air gap as well. Shanks started to test his lifting capacity by playing with the pantograph soon to find that the the combined TE of the three of us could lift it, then we touched the catenary and had a great feeling of elation we also saw the DJ and other stuff on the roof of the loco after all this we decided to get down from the roof and then view the other WAM4 locos lying around in the trip shed. This was one interesting trip to touch the catenary and come back and tell the tale..