New stainless-steel chairs add an interesting element to a calm day at MS. The rake on the left is of the just-arrived 2635.

WDM3A #16084R of Ernakulam waits patiently with her 16 coach load as hordes of "Marunaadan" Malayalees crowd each inch of space on the platform for the send off to the first regular run of the Garib Rath - A dedicated train from Mumbai to Kerala

TKD WDM 3A #18988 smokes out of Shivaji Bridge with the DDN Jan-Shatabdi. Notice the transparent cloth over the radiator!

Swatantrata Sahnani express rounds the bend from Tilak Bridge station and heads to NDLS with CNB WAP 4 #22533 incharge.

Twin headed Gooty WDGs with BCNA rake at Puntamba station.Picture by Anish Niranjan

Inaugural run of Kochuveli - Lokamanya Tilak Garib Rath. The train is at Ernakulam Town. There is a crew change and the new crew is conducting a puja. The loco is 16084R from Ernakulam. More pics are available at http://tinyurl.com/3xb6l2

At Mangalore Central. On the left is 2685 MAS-MAQ Express. On the right is 6517 YPR-MAQ Express.

Ernakulam locos seems to be determined to surprise me every time I spot them! The crown (for the shed with the maximum smokers) is surely on the roll! WDM2 #18413 of Ernakulam pulls out of Panvel with the Ernakulam bound Mangala Express.

Assistant Loco Pilot (ALP) of WDM2 #18579 leading the 1609A Pune Satara Passenger exchanges flag with ALP of WDG3A 14781 leading a BCNA rake which overtook the Passenger at Alandi

Dargah at Secunderabad or DOW - Dargah on Wheels!!! MLY WDM2 16388 decorated like a Dargah for hauling Halkatta special for 30th URS-E-QUADEERI being brought in from MLY and moving towards Hyderabad. Short hood was decorated like Dargah, both sides of sho

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The original picture shot by Ashish Kuvelkar. The train is 1014 Up Coimbator-Kurla Express at Kamshet. The Central Railway has touched up the image before using it in the calendar.

Picture says it all! -Anurag Ghosh

2653 Kochuveli Chandigarh Kerala Sampark Kranti Express hauled by Erode WDM3A# 14075 passes through Saphale outer at 100kph.

GZB's latest possession - WAP-4 # 22733. It was incharge of the KLK/ASR bound Paschim Exp. Interestingly the rake consisted of a high capacity parcel van in place of a GS coach just after the loco.