IRFCA Convention 2013 - Mughalsarai

An evening at ROH factory. This was the last outing on the first day of convention, we then proceed towards our venue. (Ashwin Rao)

We immediately leave for field visits, after a filling breakfast and Rakesh Joshi, Sathya Narayan and Harish Kumar are all smiles (Trayambak Ojha)

Everyone is happy seeing the workshop-From Left- Bose, Rakesh Joshi, Sathya Narayan, Harish Kumar, Sridhar Joshi, Chirag Ganguly, VSP, Avishek Basu & shooting is Raghuram (Trayambak Ojha)

And we take a breather capturing images and relaxing in a caboose. I'm accompanied by Raj Bhavsar (Trayambak Ojha)

The supervisor at the shed instructing the delegates (Trayambak Ojha)

We enter the trolley Repair shed next (Trayambak Ojha)

The Road Rail Vehicle (Trayambak Ojha)

As the golden sun sets through the wagon shed (Trayambak Ojha)

And the sun sets on Day-1 of the convention at MGS (Trayambak Ojha)

Another shunter 18267 lies idle in the huge yard, the largest in Asia (Trayambak Ojha)

Jatin was one of the members of OC & did a great job including taking one of the group pics (Trayambak Ojha)

Post lunch we moved on to the hump yard of MGS, here we see a wagon rolling down the hump (Trayambak Ojha)

A condemned track inspection machine (Trayambak Ojha)

A WDS6R heads towards the workshop for shunting job (Trayambak Ojha)

The rails are stored here to be loaded onto flat bed rakes (Trayambak Ojha)

The old boundary of East India Railway and Oudh Rohilkhand Railway (Trayambak Ojha)

This is where the tracks are welded together and brought onto the rake for transportation (Trayambak Ojha)

This is how the rust is polished from the tracks (Trayambak Ojha)

The Russian Track inspection machine, First in IR (Trayambak Ojha)

The Kalugaputmash machines from Russia (Trayambak Ojha)

The supervisor of the plant explaining the details as all the delagtes are engrossed while some glance for a click (Trayambak Ojha)

Track machine Maanav-"Man"- A model built only out of machines (Trayambak Ojha)

The Quiz Man the Time Table Man..Sridhar Joshi & VSP (Trayambak Ojha)

Screwing the girders (Trayambak Ojha)

The worker finds us crazy to be interested in the hard work he is doing (Trayambak Ojha)

The are the people who make sure our trains rumble over rivers , roads and water bodies without issues (Trayambak Ojha)

Delegates are busy capturing every aspect (Trayambak Ojha)