General IR Scenes Archive - 3

Pushpak negotiating curves with great speed. (Jattin bhavsar)

Night time action of token exchange taking place at Jejuri station. One can see the blurry pic of ALP leaning out to catch the token,whereas Old man getting the action freezed on his camera sitting on extreme right. ()

0516 Nanded-Daund passenger over the bridge, near Daund. 2009-01-19. (Lalam)

LTT bound Godavari express passes through picturesque surroundings between Nasik & Igatpuri. ()

It is such a wonderful sight to see a long train run past the countryside with some industries puffing out smoke from the factories. Location is between Ghoti and Padli and the train is the 24 coacher Pushpak bound to CSTM. Also note the undulating grade

Kalyan's Old Lady 18480 needs to have her morning walk to keep herself fit. Here she takes a walk on the Godavari Bridge between Nasik & Odha - Feb 2009 ()

Seems to me that the old timer is all geared up for an Om Shanti Om for the approaching daily passenger to Pune. Location - Manjri on the Pune-Daund line. (Sid Ganesh)

Morning at Dondaicha on the Surat Jalgaon line. Made me wish I had gotten there just half an hour earlier. ()

Plasser hauls a single coach towards Manmad from Daund Jn over Bhima river bridge. On the other end, the line towards Solapur also has to cross the same river few kilometers after Daund. ()

The twin diesels from Itarsi break the early morning silence at Akkalkot Road as they blast past us, horns blaring, with the legendary Karnataka Express. (Karan Desai)

Spotted this colourful train [name unknown]at a colorful background between Balugaon and Khurda Road in Orissa..
Biju Bhasker (Biju Bhasker)

The unsung personalites who are the backbone of Indian Railways (velayudam)

Decorated Pune WDM-3A 18648R hauling the inaugural run of 2113 Pune Nagpur Garib Rath. 2009-01-19. (Lalam)

A Guntakal Wdm2a pulls a passenger towards MKL (Bharath Narayan)

MAS bound 1041 starts climbing with the help of CG2's. Location Palasdhari. (Raj Bhavsar)

This is one event etched in my memory from the recent Killa trip. Evening time, a fully loaded freight with twin GY WDG-3As coming up the 1:100 grade with a lot of music on its cylinders and the sanders working furiously. Aah! the charm of twin diesels! A

Erode's WDM2 #17581 resting at Guruvayur with the Guruvayur-Chennai Egmore Express..
As you can see,the electrification works are almost finished in the Trichur-Guruvayur sector and soon all the trains connecting Guruvayur will be replaced by...

Early morning fog and sunrise make for a golden combination as the HWH bound Shipra Express scythes across northern Madhya Pradesh. (Bharath)

#13495 of Erode shed M.U ed with one other WDG3A,running light on the outskirts of Mangalore. (Arnold M Goveas)

Having made an unscheduled halt at Babupeth near Chandrapur, Maharasthra - the starter turns green and the advanced starter at double yellow for the Delhi bound AP Express. The mid day sun had virtually been blocked out by the innumerable coal fires near

Aurangabad bound Jan Shatabdi express crosses a viaduct on Thull ghats.The PAGODAS of Vipassana International Centre for Meditation can be seen on extreme right. Igatpuri,India.Picture taken from the terrace of Ganaka Motel. ()

Wishing all my fellow IRFCAns a golden 2010!

Taken aboard the Andhra Pradesh Express near Itarsi. (Vivek Mathur)

Mother nature covers the Thull ghats with a green carpet as Nagpur bound Sewagram express crawls its way through the beautiful surroundings.. ()

Aurangabad bound Jan Shatabdi rushes past the green velvet of Thull ghats. ()

3 KYN WAG-5 bankers push up a freight on Thull ghats.. ()

Pune bound EMU at Harris Bridge. (Ashwin Rao)

Twin Kazipet WDG3As on the longest viaduct between Shindawne & Ambale, May 2008. Canon PowerShot A530, S.Ashwin (S.Ashwin)