Superb

Posted by Jayasankar Madhavadas on 2015 Feb 19 05:14:43 +0000

Dear members: Thanks a lot for your encouraging comments.

Shirish:- Let me assure you that we have compromised in less than 5% cases in interior only. Every colour/designs/borders applied to the exhibits are based on either historical records or oldest available photographs. You can compare few with http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/gwoodshh/preserved/. Many IRFCA members like Poochi, Apruva, Souro, Samit, Dr Manning, David Churchill also contributed a lot in the backstage.

Milind: We love to give access to inside. But a practical problem restricts us in doing so. We cater approx 800 visitors a day in weekdays and 2000 in weekend and holidays, and a heartbroken fact is that everybody is not a railfan.

Posted by Subhabrata Chatterjee on 2015 Feb 19 04:46:52 +0000

Ignore my earlier comment, thought it was a genuine spotting. But, understood the fact when I saw previous snap later.

Posted by Sandeep Bhate on 2015 Feb 19 03:55:48 +0000

Guess, it's a SHF WDG4. I may be wrong.

Posted by Sandeep Bhate on 2015 Feb 19 03:53:15 +0000

Good work by the teams but I wonder whether they will give access to view the insides which remain locked out and one can hardly see anything from the glass window (which will with time become dirty). Hope they will maintain it properly as well.

Posted by Milind on 2015 Feb 19 03:35:25 +0000

Lovely pic

Posted by Bhaveen Patel on 2015 Feb 19 02:41:31 +0000

Great initiative!

Posted by Shirish Paranjape on 2015 Feb 19 02:00:34 +0000

Superb capture!

Posted by Shirish Paranjape on 2015 Feb 19 01:58:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Good initiative, and nice to see contributions of zonal workshops are duly acknowledged.

Having said that, I felt that in many cases the renovation has been “overdone” by using bright colours and paint schemes – which has taken away the resemblance to what these machines would have looked like, and the “rustic” feel we normally associate with IR equipment of that era.

Posted by Shirish Paranjape on 2015 Feb 19 01:53:22 +0000

Lovely set of pictures. Lucky Pawan to get enough time off to do this. Thanks for sharing the album.

Posted by Sridhar Joshi on 2015 Feb 18 05:08:22 +0000