Railfans

Article on IRFCA in ET MadrasPlus, 26th August 2006.

My colleague Sashikant, posing inside a Delhi metro coach. He has recently converted to part railfan. Guess this craze is infectious

IRFCA member wearing T-shirt and cap with IRFCA logo distributed at Pune Convention.

IRFCA member Saqib and his wife (who is rail fan in the making) at Flagstaff, AZ on May 20, 2006

SC gang assembled at ghatkesar LC ...

SC gang with Bharath moro as he leaves to SBC by the 7604 express at kacheguda.

Deepash Soni another railfan. - M Senthil Kumar

Hyderabad IRFCAn PVS Praveen takes a walk to the nearest eatery at Karjat. Pic by Vijay Vadrevou

HYB gangman V Srinivas Prasad unwinds aboard the 7032 to Pune for the IRFCA Convention

Huge people featured here! Lakshman 'Mamu' Thodla with the beautiful WCG-2 at Karjat. Pic by Vijay Vadrevou

The HYB gangeman onboard the Konark to Secunderabad after attending the convention. L to R: Vrijilesh, Roopesh, PVS Praveen with his IR Quiz Runners-up plaque, Tejender Reddy, V Srinivas Prasad (VSP) and HP Reddy. Pic by Vijay Vadrevou

A sleepy Tejender Reddy and Vijay Vadrevou onboard the Konark to SC.

'Mamu', Sandeep Koparde, HP Reddy and Tejender Reddy deep in discussions.

Mamu shows off his horns as PVS seems to be deep in thought!

With my Queen Shraddha along with the Deccen Queen. Taken 2nd September 2005.

Having lunch with IRFCA member Samit Royachowdhry and my wife Shraddha Patankar. Was delicious Chinese food at this place recomended by Samit da. Yes we had lots of chicken on the menu. Thats how I got a barrel of a tummy on my India visit. Now slogging o

With IRFCA members Vaibhav and Sandeep at Faridabad. The waiter at the sweet shop to struck a pose. Taken 18th December 2005.

Two Nuts on the rails(Lakshman and PVS Praveen)

IRFCA Northern California, members, Subbu K. and Gopal Ayyar during recent meet at California State Rail Road Museum, Sacramento. December 28, 2005. Photo by Prakash Tendulkar.

This is me, it is august 14th Aug hot and humid Rajasthan

The very first IRFCA get together during August 1991. L to R - Jishnu Mukherji, Vidyaraman, R. Aravind, Ajai Banarji, Vijay Balasubramaniam. New York Commuter Station. Photo by Dheeraj Sanghi, scanned and provided by R. Aravind

Another photo from the IRFCA 1991 get together. L to R - Ajai, Aravind,, Vijay B., Dheeraj Sanghi. Photo provided by R. Aravind

Abhishekh and Pradeep pose in front of ERS WDM2C. This loco was probably the link for some summer special as ERS WDM2Cs have no purpose to come all the way here. Igatpuri Station, 03 July 2005. Sandeep Mohan.

Railfans Galore 2: Arnab , Pavan , Apurva,S Srinivas,Sandeep and Amrutha. SBC Rohit Mohan.

The Pune gang made sure that they gave me a grand reception. From L to R, we have - Apurva Bahadur, Hrishikesh Moghe, John Mani, Ashish Kuvelkar, Swaran Udasin and Chennai member - Poochi Venkat. Thank you to all of you for making me feel at home!. Pune,

(LtoR) Laksh,Saurabh,Samit,Rahul and Bharat. Dankuni JN (DKAE), Febuary 2005. Vaibhav Sarin.

Dinner over railway talk - clockwise from the left John, Shirish, Vivek, Poochivenkat, Swaran, Hrishikesh, Apurva and Ashish. Foodland, near Pune Jn, 2005-06-25. Pic by the waiter who cut John in half - in all the pics he tried to take of the group.