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Hooray rail monopolies!
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Hooray rail monopolies!
Hi, I’m working on a fiction project set in a rebuilding society 100 years out. It’s fairly utopian so people are prioritizing restoring and improving train infrastructure and service pretty significantly. American cities have high speed rail connecting them, and because I’m building this story out of my daydreams, defunct...
Officially called CSMT, it was originally Bombay VT with VT = Victoria Terminus. Old Timers might still refer by the later name. It is possibly the single most grandest train station in India. This image does not do justice to it but I could not clock in a proper one....
dark tunnel train station...
I got the bottom bunk on the sleepy choochoo.
Plus its cutaway twin
Lying adjacent to the iconic Fairy Queen, this old engine tells the tale of an era long gone
A Narrow Gauge loco turntable, this time apparently in active use
KSR = Kalka Shimla Railway. ZDM = Z stands for Narrow Gauge in Indian Railway terminology, D for diesel haulage and M means the loco was meant both for freight and passenger trains [though freight don’t run on this section]....
Sir Leslie Wilson was the governor of Bombay(now called Mumbai), hence it was named after him. The first electrified section, IIRC, in India was around ~1930 in then Bombay - Poona....
National Rail Museum, Delhi. The image is ~2 years old and in the scorching summer sun, I never added/recorded the name/extra information about these old locos.
Always love Alan’s takes on American Rail
This is the world’s oldest working steam loco still in operation. Taken onto tracks couple of times a year this is kept 70 kms westwards of Delhi, the Indian national capital
The reason we stay in school, pursue advanced degrees, merge and acquire competitors is to increase market power. The former two are celebrated by society, the latter two often derided negatively as anticompetitive and made subject to regulatory and judicial punishment.
Barog is a Narrow gauge station lying on Kalka - Shimla rail Link, India. It is perhaps the most picturesque station on that route with it’s curving platforms coming out from a tunnel