IRFCA's Two Day outing at Regional Rail Museum (RRM) Chennai

"Fast a pogudhu da" - translated as "It is going fast brother"... the elder one comments as it went past him.

Chennai Central - display board - one can see the GR coach passing behind.

Another view of the Masjectic Chennai Central - all credit goes to the guys behind this masterpiece model railway...

Some of the models of coaches, EMU, OHE inspection vehicle and DEMU's.

IRFCA collections at the musuem. This features "Multiple Locomotives at work" - Ramdev's Braganza, Sriskandh's KK, Jay Balakrishna's Arsikere pic, Ashish's Kamshet pic, Sachin Buddhisagar's WCG2 adorn the wall. These were provided by IRFCA to th

This time, the token exchange pics. Provided by IRFCA to the RRM. These pics were edited by Poochivenkat and framed by him.

Close up of Hrishikesh Moghe's picture.

Balaji was all excited to take a ride in the Toy Train. He was posing for his father. I utilized the moment to capture this picture.

Mr. Venkatesh, the valiant staffer at RRM also acts as the loco pilot. Here he checks the tickets purchased. You may be wondering why he is wearing an Ear Muff. The loco produces so much noise during the run.

This time the Dy.CME Shri. Arun Devraj himself drives the toy train while Mr. Venkatesh enjoys a footplate ride.

I get a chance to Footplate. Here is the pilot's view.

The loco honks as we cross the road that leads to the RRM.

The woods.. Its hard to believe that such places exists in MAS.

A set of rusted semaphores welcomes the toy train to the station.

As we exit the station for the 2nd round. Each ride takes the passengers on two rounds.

It happens only on IR. A 5kmph permanent speed restriction. The loco was dancing all around. Hence this composition.

Entering the platform. There was decent crowd on the Independence Day weekend.

Another interesting capture. The smallest and youngest railfan that day thanks the locopilot Mr. Venkatesh for the ride generously through a handshake.

The children's park at the RRM had lot of visitors, especially kids who loved the slides, swings and see-saw's.

The track for the YDM1R 6015 is being brought in by a crane. Mr. Janardhanan and Mr. Venkatesh share a lighter moment as the crane brings in the track section inch by inch into the RRM.

The track is positioned parallely to the YDM1R 6015.

The expert team of workers from the Accident Relief Train at Basin Bridge arrived to re-rail the locomotive. A set of wooden planks are positioned to provide the hydraulic jacks firm ground.

Perfect positioning is required for this.

The heavy hydraulic jacks are lowered from the truck.

Extra cushioning is provided by use of small wooden planks.

Another jack positioned on the other side of the LHF.

A pair of hoses are connected from the control panel to the jack. Each jack is numbered for easy identification and the corresponding hose is connected to its respective position in the panel.