February 15-16 & 21 2012: A full day excursion with Apurva, Ashish and Lalam to Bhor Ghat at Lonavla, Monkey Hill and evening at Kamshet, as well as next morning at Pune and a day trip with IS Anand from Mumbai to Pune. Thanks a lot to Anand, Apurva, Ashish, Lalam, Rahul, Ranjit and all the others for their great hospitality!
Lonavla Station: WAG-5 bankers, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Lonavla Station: Loco driver view, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Lonavla Station: WAG-5 detail, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Lonavla Station: Rickshaws in front of the station, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Lonavla Station: Cricket match nearby, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Khandala: Old reversing station comparison, nowadays a small side road - thanks to Apurva for the antique picture (around late 1800s, early 1900s), 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: Apurva's Tata Nano brought us offroad to Monkey Hill Cabin - Lalam climbing the catch sidings, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: Kalyan class WDG-3A bankers returning downhill past Monkey Hill Cabin, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: View west towards the coast, WDG-3As in the foreground, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: The next downhill train stopped for a brake test in front of the cabin. In the background to the left spectacular Duke's Nose peeked out, in front to the right Monkey Hill, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: KJM WDP-4B #40066 with 11014 Coimbatore - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) Express entered the tunnel below us, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: Once you turned left the viaduct which we had seen from the side in the morning came into view. The quota maintenance vehicle - pushed by WAG-7 #27289 and #27102, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: WAG-5 #23547 and #23490 rolled downhill, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: Regular passenger trains took a lunch break, but we still encountered plenty of action: WAG-5 #23809 pulled a freight plus class WDG-4 uphill, the latter would take over on diesel lines from Pune, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Monkey Hill: A panoramic view of this spectacular landscape. Next to the tree on the summit in front you can spot an object which the Pune railfans already had noticed on century-old images. Once they had climbed up, and it turned out to be a marker indic