A set of images captured on a daylong journey across the famous spiral at Dhulghat and the ever fascinating ghats from Kalakund to Patalpani by 15 railfans. The partners in crime were Abhishek Nair, Akshay Marathe, Bhushan Kale, Binai Sankar, Bizzy Mishra, Colin Peter, Dilip Setlur, Jayasankar Madhavadas, Karan Desai, Karthik, Kaushik Dharwadkar, Nitin Master, Ramdev Gowda, Shantanu Kulkarni and Vibin Andrews. (Some images taken during these members' journey to Akola, and on their way back to their home bases are also included) The event was on the 14th of March 2009.
MHW YDM-4 #6726 stands at its home shed of Mhow.2009/03/14 (Abhishek Nair)
The 'gang' at Rajendranagar, awaiting a crossing.... (Ramdev Gowda)
Something that's extremely rare to come by, and will be even rarer to come by a few months later - Twin YDM's hauling an 18-coach MG passenger rake, smoking for all their worth! 2009-03-14, Bizzy ()
YDM4 #6726 of Mhow heading the Ujjain Passenger, at Indore ()
YDM4 #6607 heading one of the numerous passengers towards Mhow, at Indore ()
The starter at Ratlam turns green for the 2948 Azimabad express bound for Ahmedabad. The advanced starter is double yellow. (Akshay Marathe)
BRC WAP-4 #22392, in charge of the Azimabad express waits at RTM inspite of the green starter, as it had a compulsory halt of 8 minutes at Ratlam. (Akshay Marathe)
GZB WAP-5 #30004 hauling the 2953 BCT-NZM AK rajdhani express waits for the starter signal at RTM.2009/03/15 (Abhishek Nair)
WDM2 #17536 of Ratlam reverses at Vadodara, to take charge of Shanti Express (Ramdev Gowda)
Ratlam WDM-2 17536 coming in for attachment to 9310 Indore-GNC Exp at BRC. 2009-03-15, Bizzy ()
Ratlam WDM-2 #17536 ready to depart towards Gandhinagar with the Shanti express in tow after its reversal. Taken at BRC. (Akshay Marathe)
LDH WAG-7 27669 hauls in a ConRaj rake through BRC while WCAM1 21825 enjoys the morning sun in the background. 2009-03-15, Bizzy ()
Triple combo... WDG3A #13109 of Abu Road heads off to the yard after bringing in the Ajmer/Udaipur-Bandra Express (the return link for the Mumbai Gang), while WCAM1 #21825 comes in to take charge of the train, to Bandra. A WAM4 hauled passenger train can
WCAM-1 #21825 takes charge of 2996 Ajmer/Udaipur - BDTS superfast for the last leg of the trip from BRC to Mumbai. It did a satisfactory job of hauling the mammoth 23 coach load. (Akshay Marathe)
Light AJNI WAG-9 #31112 waits in the freight yard at Valsad. (Akshay Marathe)