MS-MAS Round Trip: Arakkonam Jn and the preferred platform for detraining. Those small dark objects on the ground are the worst 'man-made' nightmare you could encounter at a railway station! Arakkonam Jn. 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: The second platform that also serves as a pit lane. It has a proper cover and a foot overbridge. But only a few people got off here. Arakkonam Jn. 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Adwait eagerly awaiting the Hubli Express and its WDP4. Arakkonam Jn 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: For a change Ponpadi station seems to be fighting a losing battle with nature. Ponpadi 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: A nice curve after Ponpadi. The train is the 1041 Chennai-MumbaiExpress 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Generous water bodies all over! Note the peak far away that seems to deify diesel power! The peak looks like a WDM2 haluled passenger train. Somewhere between Ponpadi and Taduku 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Steep curves like these are aplenty on the RU-AJJ Section. 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: I hereby christen this natural formation "Dadar Express" after the favourite train of this line. Somewhere between Ponpadi and Taduku 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: A closer look at "Dadar Express" Somewhere between Ponpadi and Taduku 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Renigunta, home for some great freight action. An Asansol WAG5HA with a container rake in the loop lines. 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Lanco Industries' steel works at Rachagunneri (RU-Gudur section)is right next to the station divided just by a boundary wall. Rachagunneri 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: Bilaspur - Tirupati Express the successor of the slowpoke Howrah-Tirupati has only 3 SL coaches and an AC 3tier coach. rest are all GS. Sri Kalahasti 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: We hit a steep curve just before Akkurti, putting us almost perpendicular to the station ahead for a brief moment. Akkurti 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: A station, a level crossing with a gate and a permanent restriction - all within a steep S curve Akkurti 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny

MS-MAS Round Trip: The curve out of Akkurti. Note the water body next to the track. There are a lot of lakes big and small like these. 2007-12-22 Ranga Eunny