The Fourth IRFCA Convention - Bangalore
Images shot by different photographers at the Fourth IRFCA Convention, held at Bangalore on the 24th and 25th of January 2009. Images shot by them while traveling to the convention are also included.
Album: Official photographs from IRFCA Convention 2009
The luckiest WDP 4 in the whole country, 20025. Why not name it "Eldo" after the foreman of KJM shed who took so much interest in showing us around? (Jimmy Jose)
What are these guys searching under the loco?? Thats the enthusiasm of railfans... (Jimmy Jose)
Maestros greet each other at BNC loco shed (Jimmy Jose)
While the DP - 4 hogged all the limelite at the BNC shed, this WDM 2 stood silent without getting any attn. (Sant Kulk)
A view of the delegates (Vrijilesh Rai)
A view of the gathering, the hall and the two screens for viewing. (Vrijilesh Rai)
Another view of the gathering and the setup. (Vrijilesh Rai)
Another view of the gathering of the delegates. (Vrijilesh Rai)
Mr Praveen Kumar has just turned the MACL starter to green to herald the commencement of the Fourth IRFCA Convention. (Vrijilesh Rai)
Resident TTE of BNC 2009 Colin Peter hands over the token to Mr Mayank Tiwari for being elected unanimously to host the next convention at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi. (Vrijilesh Rai)
Chief Organiser of BNC 2009 Mr Srinivas welcomes the guests on the dias... Mr Sivasailam, Mr Praveen Kumar and Mr V Anand. (Vrijilesh Rai)
the most photographed loco on IR should be this guy.WDP4 20025 stands tall and proud for the photo"shoot" by all the BNC convention visitors. ()
Our Invitees arrive for the function.. Mr RK Upadhyay, GM RWF, Yelahanka [ Ivory Suit ]. Others are known through the photos posted earlier on. ()
First and Third generation of Railway Enthusiasts... The 2nd gen man would be Raghavendra Rao ()
The Special invitees leave after lunch. Mr Praveen Kumar, Mr Subranshu, Mr Sivasailam & Mr Sanjiv Handa ()
Foodies... a light moment from the lunch time ()
Registeration Desk ! [L to R ] Santosh Kulkarni, Manish (lawyer), Gaurav Varshney ()
Triple WDP4's from KJM sparks up BNC09 as it enters BNC to move towards SBC (Shishir Jairam)
BNC 09's beautiful banner outside UTC,the venue. (Shishir Jairam)
KJM WDG3A 14615 shunts the rake of SBC - KCVL Express out of BNC. ()
The event begins! Mr Srinivas welcomes the Invitees and Delegates to the event. On the dais, (Left to Right): Mr Sivasailam (of BMRCL), Mr Praveen Kumar (Member-Mechanical, RB) and Mr V.Anand (Former GM, Southern Railway) ()
The book-publishing event! The book "The story of Indian ALCO Locomotives" post-release. Seen in the image: (From Left to Right): Mayank Tewari (Director, NRM - also the publisher of the book), Apurva Bahadur, Joydeep Dutta (One of the Authors),
Congrats! Dr Jitendra Mulky (Leftmost) receives his prize from V.Anand (on the right). Looking on are Ranga (L) and Sridhar Joshi (R). ()
The oldest participant at the Convention just ensures that his name features in the reservation chart... Shishir 'Sonic' looks on... ()
Dr Vrij at his job of live-blogging... TTE Colin looks on what is being typed, while Adityaa from SC looks on eagerly at the proceedings ()
No seats available sir! TTE Colin Peter tries to dissuade gate-crashers from the venue.... [Just kidding! He was indeed posing for the image, although we did have one gate-crasher to deal with ;-)] ()