Day 1 Images

The dessert 'Malai Makkhan' served for the lunch was too good. Slurp!

The first session began with a Overview of projects done under Railway Technology Mission. The talk was delivered by Prof. N Vyas of Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-K

The second talk was titled "Instrumentation for Crack Detection" and was delivered by Prof. N N Kishore of Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-K

A talk on "Improving the Metallurgy of Wheels" was delivered by Prof. Sandeep Sangal of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering Department, IIT-K

A talk on "Corrsion Problems in Railway Assets" was delivered by Ms. Piyali a research student of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering Department, IIT-K

Prof. Utpal Das of Electrical Engineering Department, IIT-K delivered a talk on "Possibilities in Fog Vision"

It's time for tea after the technical sessions by professors from IIT Kanpur are over

What are these delegates paying attention to...?

... It is to the point Ravi Sundarajan is making!

A talk titled "Bijapur - Opening a New Gateway to History" was delivered by Ravi S on behalf of Bijapur BG Progress Monitoring Committee

Mr. D L Kulkarni and Mr. S Bhavi, Bijapur of Bijapur BG Progress Monitoring Committe which has done persistent follow up, to get the gauge conversion done.

Dr. Shirish Yande making a point emphatically during the presentation

The Panel Discussion on Diesel and Electric Traction began with a presentation by Mr. Shubranshu, Chief Motive Power Engineer, South Western Railway

Prof Agarwal from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-K makes a point about usage of Biodiesel by Indian Railways

Joydeep calls upon Mr. Sachin, Sr. DME, TKD Shed to make his presentation

In the evening the focus shifted to Joydeep's collection of working Railway models

Joydeep had setup a small shunting yard and delegates like Jattin Bhavsar, could not resist getting closer view of them

Here are the shutterbugs, who do not want to miss the opportunity to capture the action

Another close up view of the model locos

On display were, a collection of rail photographs taken by IRFCA members. Poochi Venkat explained the finer points and gave tips about taking better photographs

The delegates apprecited the work as well as asked questions

Day 2 ended with a stupendous dinner. The chill in the air ensured that barbeque counter was overworked

Shantanu Kulkarni, Ajit Rao and Nitin Master enjoying the tasty tikkas

After the starter, it's time for the second course

Discussion about IR is a must even while you are munching food

Anamitra, Subhabrata are ears to what Mr. Saha is telling

Mr Seshadri aka chechu making a point to Mr. John Garcia