General IR Scenes Archive - 3

Twin UDL shed WDM2 locos hauling a long BOBRN rake over Mayurakshi river. Sahibganj loop in West Bengal. ()

Dawn breaks at Badnera as a WAG5 pulls into the station with a freight. ()

The lush green surrounding's of Daulatabad station, this station is ideal for high speed diesel action, its a treat to see aurangabad Janashatabdi express pass through this station at 6am. (Kaushik Dharwadkar)

BRC WAG-5 travels light towards BRC through Vaitarna after bringing BCNA load to BSR couple of hours ago (dhawal poladia)

Triple Exhaust and Triple Pantos. While the triple WDG3A with 13063 leading, waits on MID line, a BCNA rake led by triple WCG2s with 20145 leading seaks past it on the UP line at Monkey Hill ()

A Wdm3d lights up the track with the Triveni exp in tow at BDL. The multiple greens are for the overtaking Sealdah Rajdhani. (Bharath)

HWH WAP-4 #22379 ready to leave with the HWH bound Shipra express from Vindhyachal after the scheduled halt. (Samar)

A gmo wag-7 enters BDL with its rake as the Sun begins to set (Bharath)

HWH WAP4 22375 hauling the Jodhpur-Howrah express near BDL. This spot is near the Banks of the Ganga. (Bharath)

Gmo wag-9 31051 enters a bridge near BDL under full regen with a rake of empties (Bharath)

The excellent decoration done on the loco KYN WCAM-3 # 21963 comes under sunlight as the Assistant Loco Pilot waves the green flag , as the loco passes Yellow with left Diversion signal to get diverted towards Kasara/Igatpuri. The trains going to Pune get

To my surprise all the coaches too were decorated ! (Chaitanya Gokhale)

Who has manufactured this coach??? Coach 353A and 345A are part of 3xx ACDC EMU, but notice the huge difference between these 2 in terms of windows size / dimensions. This coach has no other differences, but the windows are so big compared to the regular

The Cst Bhubhaneshwar Konark and 1008 Pune Cst Deccan Express seem to be saying Hi and Bye to each other in a hurry. Location is Palasdhari, Maharashtra, a little before sunset. (Arzan Kotval)

Freshly painted ERS WDM3A # 14080 takes off from Calicut with the MAQ-KCVL Ernaad express in tow across the Kallayi river. ()

An Overhead Traction equipment Inspection Van named "Jhansi ki Rani". NCR has given some really interesting names to these vans. Few years back i saw another van by name of "Braj Sundari" at Agra Cantt. (anant singh)

Hawkers cater to the breakfast needs of UR coaches of punjab mail. Hot samosas, Jalebi, Wild berries and hot tea were on offer. To me it was looked much better than bland cutlets and (almost) stale bread served by train pantry, that i had had a little whi

The new AC/DC Service between Lonavala and Pune passes the beautiful golden orange setting sun. Location is Km 149 between Vadgaon and Kanhe stations. (C G)

Sitting in front coaches sometimes means you are deprived of the typical station tea and samosas but then you have the luxary of dropping your relatives infront of the coach (see barely visible Maruti 800). I was more surprised though that why the driver

What are these boxes kept over from 5 to 14 and also on 3 and 4? (Samar)

Phaphamau west cabin has 49 levers. (Samar)

Layout west of Phaphamau. The line curving to the left goes to UCR-RBL-LKO/CNB, the middle line goes to PBH-RBL/SLN-FD, and the line curving towards right goes to JNH-ZBD/BSB. Phaphamau bypass (embankment) line can be also seen at a distance joining the l

The tiny rake of 1PRL now fully visible on the massive Ganga bridge between Prayag and Phaphamau. (Samar)

Lone man walking! On a frigid December morning, a lonely commuter makes an arresting silhoutte while walking across the Auranga river bridge outside Valsad. [Note - this is better sized and cropped replacement version of an older, similar picture] (Bharat

The Historic Moment arrives. WCAM-3 # 21937 which was AC Unfit once , hauls the first train to enter the newly electrified AC Line between Pune and Lonavala. This was 1 and a half hours post ACfication. Location is the neutral section at Km 131 between Pu

Board indicating the end of DC section and start of AC section on the down main line. (Ashwin Rao)

Sign of Panta down and DS open for transition form DC to AC section. Note the rod out there , it is a discharging rod used for two purposes to earth the waste or rather surge currents before charging the section to 25kv AC and to check the continuity of t