On The NG : Nagpur-Chindwara and the Motibagh Museum

Date: 2004-12-12
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 102 items
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Inside the Museum: Front view of the tank loco PL #694.

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Inside the Museum: A wonderful picture of the most humongous semaphore gantry I have ever seen! Anyone know where this could have been?

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Inside the Museum: More signalling goodies. The device on the bottom right was used for interlocking.

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Inside the Museum: My kind of signalling equipment!

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Inside the Museum: A Neale's ball token machine manufactured by the India Electric Works Ltd, Calcutta

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Inside the Museum: The board explains it all

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Inside the Museum: NG flat cars! Need I say more.

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Inside the Museum: A NG caboose. Ain't it the cutest thing around?

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Inside the Museum: An Italian steam crane seems ready for business. Apparently, It was in regular service until a few months ago.

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Inside the Museum: The Italian manufacturer's plate. Can anyone throw more light on this company?

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An excited IRFCA team (Looking back are Kamesh & Dilip) marches towards the NG platform of Itwari Jn. All the 3 platforms visible in this pic are BG. Note the dwarf height of the last visible platform. The reason could be that this Pf serves NG on the

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At Itwari: Tata WAG-7 #27534 with a high capacity parcel van rake waits patiently for the signal.

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Another view of the Tata WAG7 about to depart with a high capacity parcel van rake. Note the tiger stripes on the platform sides matching with the G7 front. Another goods rake waits its turn to depart after Tata G7 hauled rake. To the extreme right is the

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Small is beautiful!!! The East (Chhindwara / Gondia) end of the ONLY NG platform of Itwari Jn abuzz with crowd as its almost the time for 1NNJ Pass’s arrival. Dr Akash Bang

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The West (Nagpur) end of the NG platform of Itwari Jn. All eyes eagerly await the 1 NNJ pass. Note that even the small height of the platform is painted with tiger stripes! Dr Akash Bang

Comments
Gentlemen - terrific pictures! Now I know what we missed by doing this section at night!
Posted by Mohan Bhuyan on 2006 Dec 16 14:58:47 +0000