Railfans

IRFCAites at SBC. 23-May-09. SBC. (Arnab Acharya)

A friendly British couple enjoying the ride on Indian Railways on one of railfan's favorite berth. Photo taken with their permission. (Samar)

Officers and IRFCA-members strike a pose with the LHB rake at BBQ. Inaugural Run will be around mid-May. (poochivenkat)

Through his eyes ... seen are the P4's! (Sid Ganesh)

Heights of Frenzy ... all were awaiting a dual headed MG Express chugging into the station ()

Mumbai Railfans (L-R) Sagar Patil, Siddharth Fondekar, Harsh Dinesh (Pune) and Apoorva Karlekar enjoy inside the empty AC Chair Car coach of BCT-ADI Garib Rath Special on its inaugural run at BCT. The five of us were the only "passengers" to boa

Members of IRFCA Pune chapter who had assembled on PF #1 of PUNE to see off the Deccan Queen, on occassion of Birthday of Indian Railways. (L-R) Raj, Ashwin, Jatin,Kharad, Abhishek, Hrishikesh and Lalaam ()

Chennai gang in action... Travelling by 103 MS - PDY Passenger and waiting at Mailam. Akhilesh, who saw us in action and questioned us whether we were from IRFCA... He too is also a IRFCA member (very silent!!)... A quick round of introduction among us, h

Google defines patience as "Patience is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties." - this is what Sachin Buddhisagar was doing precisely... awaiti

A touching moment as Mr V.S Rao Takes the final movement from the running room, A mighty salute to the men of steam who were made of steel ........ Lakshman. (Gowri Sankar R)

The IRFCA Gang was there... from L to R.. Sridhar Joshi, SVR Ramprasad and yours truly Gowri Sankar posing before the Fairy Queen. Perambur West Yard., 01-Oct-2005. Gowri Sankar R.

Many thanks to Pune Chapter for the hospitality... from L to R, Vinod, Apurva and Gowri Sankar.. photo taken by Ashish. Pune Station, 11-Dec-05

Railfans in action: Poochi captures the Koyna in his handycam as Sachin tries to evade himself in coming in Poochi's frame - Valha (Vivek)

Railfans in action: asHIsh, HCM and Sachin frame the 'Ugly' Hood forward with the Swarnajayanti. Thanks to Sachin for editing the pic.. for comparision have a look at this (Vivek)

IRFCA @ work..Ashish removes the halogen lamp which was put up to capture the token exchange process during night time. Hrishikesh & the pointsman lend him the support.The token exchange coverage was done with proper permission. ()

IRFCians at work.L-R..Hrishikesh Moghe,Poochivenkat & Vivek Pillay.Picture taken at Jejuri. (Sachin Buddhisagar)

VSP sir as usual doesnt leave the door for a second. (Sachin Buddhisagar)

IRFCA Nasik & Mumbai gang at Kaman road station (L-R) Anish Niranjan,Hrushikesh Sathe,Sagar Tipnis,Debobrata Mukherjee...

a gaziabad wap1 #22072 incharge of the pushpak express in place of the regular jhansi wap4.hrishikesh moghe from pune chapter can be seen standing alongside the loco. Nasik road, 2005-08-23. Sachin Buddhisagar.

irfca mumbai/nasik chapter takes a breather under a tree after a walk of 3kms...from (L) sandeep mohan,pradeep galgali,abhishek tamhankar,debabrata mukherjee,sachin buddhisagar & deep soni. Thull ghat, 2005-09-25. Auto Timer Mode (uploaded by Sachin B

Work in Progress!!! The Organising Committee of BNC2009 during a discussion at BNC, yesterday... (Facing the Camera, from Left to right: Piyush, Ravi, Vibin, Ramdev; Srinivas - talking on the phone; and V.Anand) ()

IRFCA Mumbaikars at Vangani! (From Left to Right): Yours truly, Siddharth Fondekar, Sagar Patil, Apoorva Karleker, Dhaval Poladia, Arzan Kotval, Devraj Malekar & Ashutosh Hukumchand - Thanks to all of them for making one of my last railfanning trips i

IRFCA Gangmen pose once again! (From Left to Right) VS Prasad, Deepesh Soni and Giridhar Patnaik pose in front of of WCAG1 #21973 which was just preparing to haul a BCNA rake towards Karjat.

IRFCA Gangmen pose! (From Left to Right): Abhishek Tamhankar, Sachin Buddhisagar, V Srinivasa Prasad (From HYB), Deepesh Soni, Sagar Tipnis, Ranjeet Ramaswamy and Giridhar Patnaik. The image was shot at the end of an hour long railfanning at Thane.

'On duty' gangmen, Jainand and Apurva captured near Ventilation shaft in Tunnel 25C of Bhore Ghats, DN line, near Khandala.

An article about Neral Matheran loco that appeared in IE's Pune Newsline on 20th Nov 2006.

Dr. Shirish Yande on behalf of IRFCA Pune chapter, expressing his thoughts at the retirement function of Pune Electric Trip Shed in-charge Mr. R. S. Dumbre, Pune ETS.