Railfans

VSP with his Time Table in the Dinning Car of Deccan Queen, which had just arrived at PUNE

John and Bharath pose in front of UBL WDP4 20020. Bharath was on his way to Bangalore from Mumbai by Udyan Express, Pune.

John poses in the "cattle guard alley" - two of these are lying at either side of the pf 7. Pune Jn. - pf 7, 2005-06-19. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

Visiting IRFCA crew pose. From the left is Binai Sankar of Mumbai chapter (travelling to LTT on the 1014 Up express in the background) and R. Gowri Sankar of Chennai chapter who had arrived at Pune earlier night by the 2164 Up express at an unearthly 0215

Hrishikesh (cap) and John (beard) watch this guy take measurements of some radio frequency signals. GIT yard, Ghorpadi, Pune, 2005-04-16. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

Hyderabad IRFCA meeting. Photo taken near Hussain Sagar junction station. December 18 2005. Photo taken by R. Anand

Hyderabad IRFCA meeting. Photo taken near Hussain Sagar junction station. December 18 2005. Photo taken by Tunguntla Rajendra.

IRFCA Northeast USA meet - 25 Feb 2007. Standing Left to Right: Mani Vijay, Sriram, Sridhar Shankar, Manish Patel, Jaimin, Arunkumar Viswanathan. Sitting Left to right: Ninad Patil, Rangachari Anand, Jainand, Bharat Vohra, Geert Marien and Myself.

Loco road number guru Mr. Krishnan in front of a fancy numbered P-4 (22222 of Erode) at Egmore.

Vivek Pillai (left) and myself relax for sometime at Bhivpuri Road outer. We were waiting for the Cst bound Udyan Express to arrive very shortly. On that day we did 5kms of walking plus climbing the huge mountain near Neral station. (Arzan Kotval)

Railfans pose for a pic at Patalganga river. From (L-R): Anuj Budhkar, Karan Desai, Kamal Rayaguru, Deep Soni. The bridge above is Patalganga Bridge on the Panvel-Roha section. This river provided a great relief from the heat. We did railfanning on this r

IRFCA members at the "MU ceremony"(AJJ+BRC) of Gowrisankar & Aarthi in Chennai. ()

Seen here is the Retirement Function of Mr. Vyankatesh Pande. It was held with the usual IR formalities. Among the speakers were lower rung workers to the Chief commercial officer / CR .
Mr. Pande has over 30 + years of distinguished service with...

Sometimes the co-passengers make the journey more enjoyable..I loved the way this British lady was keenly observing the Gujarat countryside onboard 2996A Udaipur-Bandra Express. (Karan Desai)

Chennai IRFCA members Krishna Kumar Jr and Sriram karthik aboard the JS on 15.03.2009. (Vimalakar)

Young IRFCA member Nishanth with his father and Chennai member Nagaraj aboard the JS. (Vimalakar)

Poochi Venkat and Krishna Kumar Sr aboard the JS to BZA. (Vimalakar)

Poochi Venkat, Krishna Kumar Sr and JR, Sriram Karthik with Jayakar Sunkara and Ramachandra at BZA RS on our way back to MAS. (Vimalakar)

Capt. Nilesh Vaidya – railfan in the making, onboard Tapovan Express with his grandmother Leela Deshmukh on his first ever railway journey between Nanded and Parbhani. (Dhiraj Deshmukh)

A Railfan at work. Busy in taking photo of Kanyakumari Express (Sagar)

This is Mr Raj Bhavsar at Ambale station who is in search of good location for rail fanning. (Ashwin Rao)

Baijnath Paprola station, Feb 2009. Note the station building typical of this route, and the solar panels on the roof. Ajai Banerji (Ajai Banerji)

(OT). 2008-12-01. Ex-IR YDM-4 6352 leading the morning express from KL to Singapore. The assistant driver was all praise of ex-IR YDM4 in terms of reliability and performance. (Shirish Paranjape)

IRFCA Pune Members at a dinner meet at Hotel Jazz by the Bay ()

2008-Dec. With IRFCA Pune members. Probably only one person in the photo needs an introduction - that's me 2nd from right.
(Shirish Paranjape)

2009-01-05. With Zubin at Badnera station (Shirish Paranjape)

Srini is trying to start a dead YL Engine @ UBL. Try your best Srini. We are behind you (Ravi)