Deccan Queen's 80th Birthday...
The Queen of Indian Railways is celebrating her 80th birthday today.Members are requested to upload the images from the function directly to the album instead of OL gallery. Only registered users will be able to upload the images
Cake by IRFCA Pune Gang. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Duranto's crew was amused to see the celebration. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Railfans and the media. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
LP of Deccan Queen. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Celebrating Birthday rituals with cake. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
The media was everywhere. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Starting the journey on her 81st birthday. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Bidding goodbye to Queen. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Here is the WCAM 3 # 21958 is going to attach the Queen (Raj Bhavsar)
The Decorations is going on. (Raj Bhavsar)
Mayor of Pune Mr.Mohansingh Rajpal and Pune Pravasi Sangh Member Harsha Shah for the celebration. (Raj Bhavsar)
Mr. P.K.Mishra is the in charge of the Birthday Queen. (Raj Bhavsar)
Decorated Loco KYN WCAM 3 # 21958 (Raj Bhavsar)
2124 Deccan Queen leaves Pune to onward journey to Mumbai. (Raj Bhavsar)
PUNE WDM-2 #18512 shunts the long winding rake of Deccan Queen on to PF-1 of Pune. ()
Shunter pulls into Pf # 1 with the golden rake of Deccan Queen. (C G)
Wohhoooo , here it comes. The power for the day Kalyan WCAM-3 # 21958. Last time the honour went to 21946 and the last to last time it was 21940 leading the Queen. (C G)
The LP and ALP were in a very jolly mood on the Queen's birthday as they brought the loco from the trip shed to the platform turning headlights on and off and blowing horns in melodious rhythm, much to the delight of present railfans! ()
As all the attention is on Birthday Girl DQ, the NZM-PUNE Duronto quietly enters PF-2 behind BL WCAM-2P #21862 ()
Children enjoy the view of crackers on Pf # 1 of Pune station. (C G)
WCAM3 #21958 enters pf1 Pune to take the charge of the Queen. (Ashwin Rao)
Puja being performed by the Pravasi sangh members before cutting the cake. ()
Decorated WCAM3#21958 (Apoorva Karlekar)
Close up of the Decorated WCAM 3. ()
The LP greets the fans of the DQ after wearing a Pagadi(headgear) presented by IRFCA members ()
The celebration at Pune station included "band-baaja wala" musicians too! ()
Mishra kaka cuts the cake brought by IRFCA Pune ()
Recent comments
@Karan, By saying "we IRFCAns" I hope you're not speaking on behalf of all IRFCA-ians and certainly not the regular travellers. For one, your perception of the "enthusiasm dying down" is downright rubbish - because that's not the case, and if you see...
Posted by Kharad Zarir Variyava on 2010 Jun 02 09:50:21 +0000
@Chaitanya: The celebration on 2123 is not that much because the enthusiasm among daily travellers kinda dies down after morning celebration and tiring day at work, and we IRFCAns prefer attending one big celebration rather than having a "repeat...
Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Jun 02 07:49:10 +0000
@ Karan :- From past two years Mumbai members [including you] have been coming to Pune for celebration rather than covering the 2123 Celebrations fully at CSTM. There is more than enough coverage of DQ's birthday here in Pune , we need more from the...
Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2010 Jun 02 04:58:13 +0000