Railfans

A few days back, Satish Pai and I had a nice lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (Boston). We discussed about politics...no, not really,....trains and IRFCA! (Mani Vijay)

With my uncle, S. Ramanathan and his wife Chitra at a wedding in Chennai. Mr. S. Ramanathan retired as the GM of ER about seven years ago. V. Anand and other (ex)railway officers would recognize him. I considered myself extremely fortunate to have been

With Srinivas at Bangalore City station. We are standing next to the 2AC coach of the Bangalore-Chennai Mail. I was leaving for Chennai that night. (Mani Vijay)

With Sriram inside a 2AC coach of the TVC Rajdhani. I was leaving for Madgaon that evening. I also met Jimmy at Ernakulam that same night. (Mani Vijay)

WAP-5 cab. Ghaziabad, 2004-01-24. By Vikas Chander.

WAP-5 #30012 with a friend from Mumbai. Ghaziabad, 2004-01-24. By Vikas Chander.

Railfans Shantanu Kulkarni, Pradeep Galgali, Bhushan Kale and Karan Desai cue up for a pose at Ulhas Bridge. (Arzan Kotval)

SC Gang proudly poses before the First LGD WAP-7 30237 at SC PF-10.

(L to R Dilip, Viswa,Hari,Kamesh,VSP,Chandru, Sasidhar)

The Loco hauled the incoming 2430 rajdhani express from NZM
(lakshman)

After a walk of 8KM from Vaitarana to Safale. Still refreshed after lots of rejuvenating actions. (sagar)

A Manjiri and Shindawane trip became very techno-enthusiastic with a company of Joydeep Sir. (L-R: Yours Truly, Mr.Dinesh Hukmani, Mr.Rahul Rao,Mr. Joydeep Dutta, Raj Bhavsar, Mr.Jattin Bhavsar) (Sagar)

Another garlanded with DHR B 779. Batasia Loop, 2003-11-22. By John Lacey ( Wp7713).

A rare locomotive: DHR C 807 Pacific draped by Viraf and John Lacey. Nehru Science Museum, 2003-12-16. By Minoo Panthiak.

Mighty WAG-9 #31076 resting at the Delhi end of platform no. 1, Nagpur. Narrow gauge platform can seen on the left side. Apurva, Lalam & Satish Nair(L-R).2008-12-24. (Lalam)

Vijay Mani, Giridhar Patnaik, Apurva Bahadur & Syed Hussain at Akot. 2008-12-23. (Lalam)

Sachin and Mani Vijay at the door of Jnaneshwari expresss at Igatpuri. Sachin had come all the way from Nasik to Igatpuri to meet us. (Samar)

More railfans, L to R, I, Girdhar, Arzan, Abhisheikh, and Mani Vijay in the SL coach of Jnaneshwari express at LTT. (Samar)

A railfan's meet in Dhaka. Cagey Gupta, Najmul and yours truly. (Anamitra)

Finally, this is how railfanning is done. Spent a whole afternoon sitting between pure BG double track to Kolkata and Dual Gauge double track to Dhaka at Iswardi bypass. (Anamitra)

Sitting L to R : Giridhar, Vijay Mani, VSP, Apu, Dinesh, Bharat and Samar. Standing : Lalam. Pic taken by Anuradha (Giridhar)

The gang of most memorable trip.
L to R: Raj Bhavsar,Harsh Dinesh, Ashwin Rao, Abhishek waykole (surrounded by 3 gangmen), S Ashwin & Kharad, I was behind camera.

(Jattin Bhavsar)

A wonderful curve at Pune end of Kanhe outer amidst wonderful scenery. Also seen is IRFCA-Pune Chapter Chaitanya Gokhale who is finding a perfect place for photo-shooting! (Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer)

Pune members with Mr. V Anand. From left John Mani, Ashish Kuvelkar, Lalam Mandavkar, Mr. V. Anand, Yogesh Karandikar & Hrishikesh Moghe. Apurva Bahadur had left earlier due to some prior appointment (Lalam) (Lalam)

An article on IRFCA in "Horizons" supplement of Hindustan Times, Mumbai Edition of Dec 03, 2008. (Karan)

After seeing everyone going gaga over Sid's new hair-style, here is one pic showing how he looked with "normal" hair. This was the parting moment when Sid left for Pune. ()

A mini Delhi get together! Clockwise: Pranav Nath (in a G9 livery), Ankit Bharaj (in a gangman livery), Karthikey Misra (in a probably LDH WAG 7 livery?), Sid Ganesh (in a typical railfanning livery ;-)) and Vivek Mathur (in a multi colored livery)! Pictu

L-to-R: Sachin Buddhisagar(Nashik), Apurva Bahadur (Pune), Ashwin Suresh (Ex-Pune, now ADI), Subodh Raje (Pune), Debabrato Mukherjee (Mumbai) and Abhishek Waykole (Pune) pose alongwith Pune's WDG3A Shakti #13039 at DDJ. A bolg of this trip can be found

Apurva Bahadur,Hrishikesh Moghe & Sachin Buddhisagar take a breather at Bhoke station after an entire day trek to Panval viaduct & Bhoke tunnel. ()