General IR scenes Archive 2

Archive of items added between 2005 and 2007. No new material will be added to this folder.

Date: 2003-02-24
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 1122 items
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WARNING : Railfanning can be Contagious!! Inspired by seeing me snapping trains, a co-passenger readies his Motorola cameraphone to shoot an oncoming train. 2006-05-05, Bizzy.

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Ranchi Narrow Gauge Loco Depot.6 BS class in loco. The NG bauxite trains were double headed, hence the pairs of locos. Ranch. 1983-01.

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A "tech-sadhu" on BBS platform-4 with all his paraphernalia including a cellphone and a transistor radio. 2006-05-02, Bizzy

Inspection Trolley at  Madras . By Gary Wilson, 1997.

Madras - Inspection Trolley

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A Khalasi throws a box into a moving train, mid air! Jolarpet,April 2006

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Look at the ancient rails, joints and inverted "Kadai" type sleepers on Naval Armament Depot siding

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Tracks to Naval Armament Depot. Looks like an abandoned line, but it carries occassional traffic at night. This line carries only special explosive cargo!

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The tracks to Naval Armament Depot, Cochin diverge from Ernakulam - Shoranaur line at Kalamasseri near Cochin. The line runs about 8 km east to the ammunition dump

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The same train caught about half an hour later as it exits Jaipur station. At the helm was Tughlakabad based baldie #14004.

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The Ajmer - New Delhi Shatabdi screams past a level crossing just before Jaipur station. The track nearer to the camera is MG running parallel to the BG track between Jaipur & Ajmer.

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Aerial shot of a 12 coach EMU at a level crossing between Kasara-Kalyan.

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Sunrise from the train. An ordinary scene, yet a special one for me as this was the first photo I took on the morning after my first and last overnight journey on IR in 2004. This was the last day of my 90 day IR Pass. The location is near Tiruvallur,the

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View of entry to SBC from BNC side - Seen here are
Pf1 - WAP4 headed Brindavan Express
Pf2 - Obscured by Brindavan is KCG Express
Pf3 - Sheshadri Express
Pf4 - Karnataka Express
Pf5 - Prashanti Express
Pf6 - Tippu...

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Lower Quadrant semophore signal and an oil lamp post. between Kalka-Shimla. 2006-04-24. Vinay

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An AC1+FC Composite carriage, Allahabad Junction, Dec 2002. The date on the photograph wrongly shows '2000'. Shantanu Sen.