After driving relentlessly for 2 hours we were finally able to see the first train of the day. A train from Churu was waiting patiently at Sikar Jn for its counterpart from Jaipur to arrive. Fog had marginally delayed both the trains. (Trayambak Ojha)

2 College going girls wrapped in woollens headed to their institutions while a dead YDM4 from Fulera waited for its time and the active YDM4 with payload seemed to be ready to dart even in adverse weather conditions (Trayambak Ojha)

While the weather tried to improve we were trying to take closeups of the good looking YDM4 from Phulera (Raj Upadhyaya)

The semaphores however were not in a great shape and this go green posture for the incoming train seemed to portray more of melancholy (Trayambak Ojha)

And then the surprise liveried YDM4 from Phulera made a hurried entry at Sikar as it was running late and was attempting to make up time (Trayambak Ojha)

This overhead tank and the Hindu temple seemed to perfectly complement the isolated YDM4 (Raj Upadhyaya)

The arrival of the passenger train to Churu from Jaipur Jn was acknowledged by the customary token exchange (Trayambak Ojha)

And after a brief halt the train to Churu departs (Trayambak Ojha)

The YDM4 has seen some glorious history of Meter Gauge and now soon it will be overtaken by the Broad Gauge which is venturing fast into the vast meter gauge network of Rajasthan as seen here work has progressed really fast (Raj Upadhyaya)

Just when the fog was enough a gust of wind also accompanied some sand and dropped the visibility to further lows (Raj Upadhyaya)

While incoming train revels in the reflections of the stationery YDM4 , the LP of the train readies to exchange token (Raj Upadhyaya)

Sikar Junction at Rush Hour! (Raj Upadhyaya)

It was time for the Jaipur bound train to depart from Sikar and people now hurry to catch the train (Trayambak Ojha)

A little puff of chug from the loco and it carefully negotiates the points to land on the mainline from loop (Trayambak Ojha)

Even the tree which has witnessed so much change around itself still sees itself attached to the tall standing semaphores (Raj Upadhyaya)