A train

[bongtom]

Not a train nerd (I’ve been on one) so anyone tell me what this is?

[hidetheelephants]

Not a train nerd either but I'll take a guess at one of the many Indian goods or mixed traffic loco types that resemble the old US locos.

[2xChevrons]

The engine certainly looks like some sort of Alco 6-251 unit, so the loco is probably one of Alco's export models. It looks very like a relation of the DL531 designed for (and built in) Australia. The later DL535 series was very similar and produced in all sorts of variants for railways around the world. The Indian Railways built their own version of the DL535 as the YDM-4. A quick Google hasn't thrown up any DL535s or other Alcos in that colour scheme though.

It's funny that Alco struggled against GM in the USA, and was then forced into a distant third place by General Electric, but had thousands of their locos built by licensees around the world, many of which are still in service.

[hidetheelephants]

Indeed, a look at Wiki and many if not all of the Indian home-built locos have ALCO 251 motive power.

[mcdjl]

Does that say Royal:

[2xChevrons]

mcdjl said:

Does that say Royal:

It does indeed - a web search shows that's the logo of the Royal Railway of Cambodia. Which makes the locomotive an Indian YDM-4, built by Banaras Locomotive Works to Alco's DL535 design in the 1960s. A batch of YDM-4s were leased by IR to Malaysia, and they were then re-leased to Cambodia in 2019 to help restart railway operations there.