BSL2011 - 6th IRFCA Convention

VSP delivering his presentation on PRS at BSL 2011. (Kamesh)

LDH WAG 7 in P4 shell with Concor load arrived at Bhusaval in beautiful sunset scene. (Bhaveen Patel)

LGD WAG 9 #31144 mooved out from BSL yard with its BOXN load towards Nagpur in sunset. (Bhaveen Patel)

Beautiful Narrow gauge steam loco 720F belonging to CR, Plinthed in ZRTI, Bhusaval. (Bhaveen Patel)

Railway Model room @ ZRTI, Bhusaval. (Bhaveen Patel)

WAG 5 #23945 loco model run on track, the officer from ZRTI explained Automatic Signal blocking system to us at Railway model room, ZRTI, Bhusaval.
Here Railfan Sid Ganesh observed G5 run, behind G5. (Bhaveen Patel)

BEuatiful WG 30253 belonging to CR, proudly poses for my cam at Bhusaval. Loco plinthed in ZRTI campus, at BSL. Clicked on Feb-6,2011 (Vijay Aravamudhan)

The Huge Headlights of the this mighty steam loco WG-30253 plinthed in ZRTI Campus at Bhusaval. I was really surprised to see the sheer huge number of spareparts, used in assembling one steam loco. I was amazed looking at its sheer height of this loco, an

The Magnificient wheels of the mighty steam loco of CR, plinthed outside ZRTI - BSL, taken on Feb-6,2011. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

The tender with CR markings, belonging to the mighty steam loco - 30253 of CR, plinthed outside ZRTI. Also, you can see the water-filler installed next to the tender. Truly heritage. CLicked on Feb-6,2011 (Vijay Aravamudhan)

LGD WAG-9 headed BOXN rake slowly disappears. (Bhushan Kale)

Lively and enthusiastic at 87, Venkat Sir is joined by Vijay Aravamudhan, Shantanu Kulkarni, Govind Sir, Pushkar Joshi and Abhishek Risbud (Bhushan Kale)

WAG-9 from LGD takes the by pass line towards NGP. Captured during visit to POH workshop (Bhushan Kale)

ED WAP 4 # 22244 taking charge of MAS bound 12655 NAVJEEVAN EXP spotted near the diamond. (Raj Bhavsar)

Delegates who attend every IRFCA Convetion ...never miss out any one !!! (Pankaj Pandey)

This WAG-9 Loco gave Railfan Nitin Master and me a warm welcome to BSL on 4th February Morning at 11:45am. Our train (12141) was running 6 hours late. Also seen to the right hand side is hotel Maan Residency, viewers can get a clear idea as to how much im

The main building of Zonal Railway Training Institute(ZRTI) at Bhusaval. (Chitrarth Parghi)

BOXN rake is passing at good speed through the diamond crossing at Bhusaval. (Chitrarth Parghi)

Spotted LGD WAG9 idles with loaded BCNHL rake . (Pankaj Pandey)

A close up of the Diamond which shows an almost un disturbed mainline and the freight line with SR of 10 which is almost the rails bullhead height above the mainline rails. Mainline SR of 75 may not be for the diamond, but because this line aproaches the

Another closer view from a different angle showing grinding on part of the mainline rail created for the flanges. Note there was almost no dhak dhak sound from trains going over it on the main lines. ()

The organising Committee of BSL 2011.

Freight train heading towards NGP from BSL (Satish )

Signal :) (Satish )

The special diamond crossing layout, as developed in-house by CR. The main lines bound to Nagpur has permament speed of 75kmph while the freight line coming from Itarsi side, has PSR of 10kmph. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

This is how the OHE of freight line coming from ET side, cuts the OHE ofmainlines bound from BSL to NGP. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

IRFCAian Shri S.Srinivas addressing the IRFCA crowd at the BSL Convention 2011 at ZRTI, BSL. A Big Salutation to Srini Sir for very effectively and efficiently managing the line up of various events by way of compering and managing each event time duratio