The album contains snaps from the Kalyan-Shirdi trip that we undertook on 17th April 2010. The all new JS special introduced CR made this exciting journey possible. To Shirdi and back in a day, this leaves the WDG-3A chugging almost the entire day. We had just 3 hours of gap at Shirdi. A day long diesel chug.........what else could we have asked for? Please read the Trip Report here. Pictures by Pradeep Galgali, Shantanu kulkarni, Abhishek Tamhankar, Nikhil Karunakaran, Sriram, and Bhushan Kale
KYN WAG-7 combo led by 27118 gets ready at KSRA to push the puny load of 9 coaches of the JS up the Thull ghats. (Bhushan Kale)
Meanwhile the HWH-CSTM Duronto passes through KSRA at a decent speed. (Bhushan Kale)
Somewhere between IGP and NK, the WDG-3A continues to speed up in order to cover the lost time. We were running almost 30 minutes behind schedule. (Bhushan Kale)
The OHE inspection car at NK, 'Godavari', sems to be busy with some OHE maintainence work. (Bhushan Kale)
A late running 2859 Geetanjali creeps into Pf 2 at NK headed by SRC WAP-4#22566. We were made to wait at NK till this chap left NK. (Bhushan Kale)
KM 7/9 on the SCR line from MMR. We took the SCR line after MMR to avoid reversal of the loco at MMR. (Bhushan Kale)
The Jumbo WDM-2 form Pune, 17872 waits with NZB-PUNE Passenger while we overtake it. I do not exactly recollect but the location is Yeola station i guess. (Bhushan Kale)
A PUNE WDG-3A hides its load behind the trees while waiting for our train to branch out to the CR line which goes towards PUNE. (Bhushan Kale)
And the Queen arrives... NDLS bound Karnataka headed by ET WDM-3D + WDM-3A is about to pass through KPG (Kopergaon) while we wait and salute the queen. (Bhushan Kale)
At Punatamba, our JS takes a sharp curve to the right to go to SNSI. (Bhushan Kale)
What KGP is for SE, SNSI is for CR. Probably the mini version of KGP, the 0138 SNSI-CSTM JS waits with its WDG-3A behind the SNSI-CSTM Passenger, both on the same platform. (Bhushan Kale)
The Sainagar Shirdi station. The train that can be seen is the SNSI-CSTM passenger. (Bhushan Kale)
KYN WDG-3A#13394 welcomes us onboard the 0137 CSTM-SNSI (Sainagar Shirdi) JS special.This loco carried us to and back form SNSI. (Bhushan Kale)
At MMR, in the railway canteen, one can also get a veg dinner from Hotel Radhika. Trust me, the food is good. Price is Rs 70. (Bhushan Kale)