Nostalgia surrounding old electric railway engines has led two city politicians to root for its preservation following the old horse's retirement from the Western Railway. The WAM-4 class locomotive, used extensively on Central and Western Railway, was put out of service recently and now rests at the Pardi rail yard near Dahanu, awaiting the scrap cutting torch.

A campaign to preserve the engine was started by the Dahanu Vaitarna Pravasi Sevabhavi Sanstha. "Western Railway has failed to preserve the earlier AC DC locomotive WCAM-1. It can now compensate by preserving this WAM4 loco for future generations, outside Dahanu station, like other engines have been saved outside Ankleshwar and Ambala Cantonment stations," Prathamesh Prabhutendolkar, joint secretary of the group said.